Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — How it was Dane. [ARTICLE]

How it was Dane.

* r ) '> i manage,” said a lady to her friend, “to appear 30 happy and good natured all the time?” “I always have Parker’s Ginger tonic handy,” was the reply, “and thus easily keep myself aud family in good health. When I am well I alwaya _feel_soodnaturß(i.

* Kissing As A Cube Fob Ebfokuss. —Om* fine rtenieg recefitly Mir. 8.. a Government employe in rtie tiwu of i Bruno j was takiug a Walk in,the cas tie ground*, when on reaching a less frequented portion of the park b‘e saw a youny lady coming in the opposit direction. A* they were about to ra e each other, the young lady tun • ed toward Mr. B, threw her. arms around hfs neck and kissed him; thep. as if ashamed of what she had done, she covered her face with her hands, and. ran off as fast as she could. The gentleman, unable to kcoonnt for this agreeable surprise, fela lowed the young lady, and, ta ing her by the atm, asked for an explain ation of hrr strange procedure. “1 beg a thousand pardons,'* was tbe reply of the Llushing damsel; “you must be guatly shocked at my behavior. I had been to oonsqlt a “wise woman” as to the best means of charming away the freckles on mv face, and she advised me to kiss the first gentleman I met and they would be sure to dDuppear.” The couple continued their walk together, and though we are nor told whether! he siugular remedy proved efficacious or not, it may Interest the reader to learn that not many days afterwaid the two were joined.together for bets ter or for worse.

WHY SHE STOPPED HER PAPER. ' She came bouncing through the sanctum room like a cannon ball, and without pausing to say "How d’ye do?" »be brought her umbrella down with a mighty crash and shou ed: “T want you to to stop my paper.” "AH right, madam.”

•■Stop it right off, too,” she persisted, whacking the table again, “for I’ve waited long enough for you to do the square thing. She quieted down for a moment as we ran our finger down the list of names, and when we reached her’.-» and seratc ied it out, she said:

“There! Now, maybe you’ll do as you’d oughter after, this, an J not slight a woman cause she’s poor. If some rich folks happen to have a little red headed, bandy-legged, squint eye(|*wheeisy squawler born to them you puff it to the skies, you mak* it out an angel, but when poor people have a oaby, you don’t say a word about it. even if it is the squaresttoed, blackest haired, biggest-head-ed, nobbiest little kid that ever kept a woman awake at ’bights. That’s what’s the matter.” And she dashed out as rapidly as she came in.

Papa’s pretty gruee: It is a mistake to ask a precocious child to show oft before company. A gentleman who was dining with his family at a friend’s table, where a number of invited guests were present, had a bright little daughter, who as soon as the host Dad asked grace saidjthat’s a pretty grace, but that isn’t the way, my papa says it.” “And how does your papa say it?” asked the host, expected to hear one of the L right replies for which the child was lamous, while the rest of the guests echoed, “Yes, tell us how papa says grace." The unhappy father could not reach her, and she said, sweetly: “Why, when he comes iotojditmer he l.ioks at mamma and says; Well! this iS a h—l of a meal to set # before a a white man?”

The Detroit, fndiana & St. Louis railway Was organized at Warsaw yesterday with a capital stock of $2,000,000. It yv4U.c° mmenceat Fayette 0., and* run through Kendalville, Albion, ttcchester, Winamac, tlcnsse lear to Bloomington 111. A. S.--Kirt was elected president, and W. S. Old father Secretary Pharos.