Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — A Legislator Out of Place. [ARTICLE]

A Legislator Out of Place.

The Kentucky Legislature has a man who is out of his place. Barnum ought to have him. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal he can stand on one foot and with the other the pendant of a chandelier over seven feet from the floor ; that is, .he can stand flatfooted (five feet ten inches) and kick an object eighteen inches higher than his own head. A man being asked by his neighbor how his wife did, made this answer : “Indeed, neighbor, this case is pitiful; nay wife fears that she will die, and I fear she will not die—which makes a desolate house.” “Mother, what have people got noses for?” asked an Austin child of her mother who had seen better do.ys. “To turn up at poor folks, my child,” was the cynical response.—Texas Siftings. Soap made from cocoanut oil dissolves in salt water in which ordinary soap is insoluble.