Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1879 — Only One Leg. [ARTICLE]

Only One Leg.

An exchange speaks of Wade Hampton’s beautiful daughter, and adds: “ Boys, the old man has got only one leg.” We trust no young man will be misled by that incendiary item. A man with a wooden leg is a very dangerous man to go out of the gate ahead of. There is something about the springs in a wooden leg that seems to telescope one’s spine, and make him see comets and things.—Peek’s Sun. Some scientific men claim that the earth is drawing nearer the sun every year. We don’t know about that, but we do know that throughout the season the bottom of the strawberry and blackberry boxes comes close/ to the top every day.— Burdette. A newspaper publisher in Easton, Pa., has been arrested on two counts for advertising Southern lotteries contrary to the laws of Pennsylvania.