Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS.

You can’t draw blood from a stone, but yon can stone a “blood.” It’s a long lane that has no turn, but it sometimes runs up against a fence. The London Times is grumbling at the lack of public parks in the great English metropolis. “Do you go to the Adirondacks this summer, my buck?” “No deer, I’ve another roe to hoe. ” A bat poison is advertised that will make rats go aAvay to a neighbor’s house and die. It fills a long felt want. The Derrick tells of an Oil City man who has to turn his toes in. If he didn’t they would hit the sides of the streets. One of Barnum’s Zulus has run away from the show. Show this to your wife, if she wishes to venture out on a picnic. An Irish gentleman, speaking of the scarcity of feed in Utah, says that thousands of cattle have had to be killed to save their lives. A new shade for silk is called “lemonade color,” whatever that may mean. — New Orleans Picayune. It means a heavy watered silk. Among the assets of a grocer who failed in business in a Wisconsin town is put doAvn: “One liver-pad, worn six weeks —Avortk fifty cents. ” Birds begin their morning concerts shortly aster 3 o’clock, and it is only the early riser that can have the full benefit of their sweet songs. We can’t see Avhy prize fights are so very bad. The tAvo principals get what they deserve, and more or less loafers are crippled or killed. The men Avho pack the little boxes of figs have wonderful memories. They never forget to put the wormy fruit at the bottom of the box. By drinking kerosene you can cure yourself of diphtheria, but before you try it, consider which is preferable, drinking kerosene or having the diphtheria. When a Kentucky paragrapher Avrites a word that the printer can’t make out, the latter sets it up as “mules,” and nine times out of ten he gets it right.—Boston Post. Business men frequently advertise for “a boy to run errands. ” The way boys crawl to and from the postoffice indicates that the boy expected to run has never been found. The laAv against carrying concealed weapons does not apply to bicycles. They are revolvers, but they avoid cartridges, and never go off of themselves. —Philadelphia Bulletin. Reginald Bond is the name of an aristocratic Boston banker. He writes his name Reg. Bond “ for short,” and irreverent persons call him Registered Bond—but not to his face. A wealthy manufacturer of Connecticut having built an elegant mansion, and Avishiug to take a second Avife, said to his architect: “Which agrees best Avith brick and broAvn stone, brunette or blonde?” It lias been discovered that phamnus fran gala is a good substitute for rahmus catharticus, and only costs half as much. Then of course it will probably supply the place of the other to a considerable extent.— Peek's Sun. An eminent Boston preacher once said that it Avas a mockery to pray at night for sAveet and refreshing sleep, without seeing to it that tlio bed-room is well ventilated. God takes care of those avlio take care of themselves. Mrs. George Eliot Cross will reside in Clieyne Walk, Chelsea. The marriage of the eminent authoress has caused a great deal of hard feeling among her friends, avlio seem to knoAv more about her business than she does herself.