Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1879 — He Got It. [ARTICLE]

He Got It.

“For the sake of humanity give me just one mouthful to eat,” he said as he halted before one of the eating stands on the Central market yesterday. “I’ve nothing for tramps,” replied the woman. “I’ll take anything-—even them ’tater parings,” he continued, “for I haven’t tasted food in three days. If I can't get food I shall become desperate.” “I can’t spare anything but this prep .” “I don’t care what it is,” he interrupted, “only don’t be stingy with it. There—that’s it—give me a heaping spoonful and I’ll always remember you with gratitude.” It was a bottle of grated horse-radish, strong as the grip of a paving ring on a city, and the woman lifted out a big spoonful and deposited it in his open mouth. The tramp must have taken it for some sort of prepared infants’ food, for his mouth closed with a yum I yum! It opened again, however, and when he started to run he upset a dozen flower pots, two boys and a barrel of charcoal. Much of the dose was blown into the eyes of a horse hitched to a vegetable wagon, and after the man bad run twice around the market with his mouth wide open he got a start for the Randolph street fountain, and never took his chin out of the basin for forty straight minutes. — Free Press. The Waupun Leader contains an Article informing its readers “when to eat pickerel.” We did not read the article, but suppose, of course, that the Leader says, eat pickerel at meal time. Nothing appears so much out of place as to see a man in business hours walking along the street picking the bones out of a piece of pickerel.— Peck's Milwati* kee Sun. The Court House in Hernando county, Fla., was burned by incendiaries, and the Qouoty Judge has been assassinated,