Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — The Voice of a Panjandrum. [ARTICLE]

The Voice of a Panjandrum.

A little western rhetoric now and then is relished by the soberer eastern men, for instance, such as Col. P. Donan, of the Fargo Argus, addressed to a county fair in Dakota. He claimed to be “a real silver-plated panjandrum of orchard, meadow, field and fold, a regular old he-Ceres and Pomona melted into one, with a Pan or two thrown in to boot,” and “was transported into duck-fits of transcendent rapture at the opportunity to overwhelm an astounded universe with an avalanchean exhibition of what I know about farming.” For the rest of his advice to the people from where*“the famous Red rolls its golden flood along our eastern shores to where our royal ore-ribbed western mountainpeaks punch holes in the sky with their cloud-wreathed noses, see the original paper. ' _ Louise Michel, the famous French Socialist, travels hundreds of miles i eekly, and delivers on an average three lectures every day. *