Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — Sarcastic. [ARTICLE]

Sarcastic.

A young radical Russophilist, dining with Lord Salisbury at Hatfield lately, was very denunciatory on a distinguished Turkophilist, and "finished by dubbing him “a Philistine.” “Why Philistine?” asked the other. “Because,” whispered Lord Salisbury, who had evinced unmistakable signs of boredom, “ you are afflicted with the jaw-bone of an ass.”