Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1883 — AN OLD PUZZLE. [ARTICLE]

AN OLD PUZZLE.

AYsnkee came to a shoemaker and bought a pair of boots at $5; he gave the shoemaker a s6o* bill, the shoemaker had ns change and he went out and got it from a neighbor, and then gave the Yaßkee $45, keeping $6 as pay for his boots. Shortly thereafter the neighbor called, and said, “This note, which 1 changed for you, is a counterfeit, and I want good money for it.” The shoemaker accordingly redeemed the counterfeit. Now, what did the shoemaker lose by the transaction ? The Star Route trials now going forward In Washington are wsii calculated to bring what is called the “Department of Justioe” into contempt, The Government, it is reported, has considered the propriety of dismissing the Jury for some trivial cause. Should this be done the precoedings wsuiff have to be all gone over again. Ths case is one wbioh enables Blltf and bis pals to bleed tbs Treasury at about the rate of about S2OO per day, and it is believed that the gooso wbioh yield such bountiful supplies of down will be kept in good picking order to the latest daJ practicable.

General Lew Waliaoe, our dashing Minister to Turkey, when tired of the cares of office, gets in his barge and takes a sail On a resent trip of this kind he made for the Syrian coast and visited the holy of hi lies, at Hebron, and through the kindness of the Sultan, who seemed to be ed" on Lewis, ordered the guard to admit him into the sanctuary. This, is an honor which has been given but few, and they, Europeans, in whose veins was supposed to course the blood of the Hupsburg, Yorks, Gueffre and others, kingsmen of a long line of Kings, therefore but few unholy fee bare pressed the portals. The General’s party was accompanied by Mrs. Henry 8. Lane of this city, who was also allowed to enter. It is said she is the first Christian woman who ever entered the plaoe.—Grawfoids* villa Review. .The coquette who flirts at a funeral would weep at a wedding—unless it was her own.