Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1878 — “It’s Wicked to Shwear.” [ARTICLE]

“It’s Wicked to Shwear.”

Two Germans, fresh from Cincinnati, visited New Yirk, and one, well acquainted with :he city, invited his friend to Delmonico’s, where a diuner for two and a bottle of wine were ordered. The place and fare were praised until the bill of sll was presented. This they considered an extortion.— They paid, however, and while walking down Broadway the excited German commenced to swear at the supposed extortion. His friend then said, “Do not sb wear, Yawcup. It is wicked to shwear. God has punished dot man Delmonico.” ”How?” “I have mine pocket full mit spoons.” Hawk Eye; When one of Architect Mullett’s buildings falls dowu he goes to the ruins, examines the chaos of masonry very critically, and says they might have known that one coat o! whitewash wasn’t strong enough to hold up as heavy a wall as that; why in thunder didn’t the idiots know enough to put on more whitewash? T. S. Marshall, the well known poultry breeder of Pecksburg, Hendricks eounly, Ind., recently sold a partridge cochin cock to T. Williamson, of Taunton. Mass., for S4O. A flock of over 200 wild -geese was seen on the river near Columbus, Ind., Sunday. Over 8,000 valentines passed thro’ the Fort Wayne post office on the 14th and 15th. There are 625 convicts in the Jeffer •ouville, Ind., penitentiary.