Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1882 — The Ancient Cinder. [ARTICLE]

The Ancient Cinder.

The moon, according to the astronomers, is undergoing a great internal convulsion, and threatens to turn around and show us a new face. We only hope she won’t burst, for we should probably have to “ stand from under,” Suppose she should fly into half a dozen satellites and give us perpetual moonlight!—Boston Herald. The New York Sun is agitating the guillotine question. It believes it better to chop a man’s head off than to pull his neck out of joint, but as long as the victim doesn’t complain what’s the use of a ehange ?