Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1878 — Pleasures of Anticipation. [ARTICLE]

Pleasures of Anticipation.

The little Paul, aged 8, passes the day at his uncle’s. At the dessert they serve the tart to the cream. “Ah, my uncle,” says the child, “why didn’t you tell me this morning that there was going to be pie for dinner ?” “Why?” “So that I could have expected it all day,” replies the infant, passing his tongue around his ears. Two British soldiers in Ceylon recently died of cholera—theirs being the only deaths in the regiment. The dead men happened to be teetotallers, and this fact so impressed their comrades that of 188 temperance men in the regiment 136 immediately broke the pledge. The income of the ex-Empress Eugenie is stated to amount to $500,000 per annum.