Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1881 — A Diabolical Arrangement. [ARTICLE]

A Diabolical Arrangement.

It is astonishing how many Americans there are who can sympathize with that famous remark of Carlyle’s, evoked by life-long suffering, about “that diabolical arrangement called a stomach. ” Many a dyspeptic has felt thankful to the grim Scotchman for thus characterizing an organ that has played the mischief with his peace.

They put a lot of ignoramuses into a jury box now-a-days, and then attempt to tickle a man’s vanity by telling him that he is to be tried by a jury of his peers. No wonder so many criminals commit suicide, rather than have such A stigma cast upon their family name.— Rochester Herald.