Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1883 — The World a Mere Hostelry. [ARTICLE]

The World a Mere Hostelry.

All that in this world enlarges the sphere of affection or indignation is to be reverenced, and all those circumstances enlarge it which strengthen our memory or quicken our conception of the dead; hence it is no light sin to destroy anything that is old, more especially becau«j, even -with the aid of all the attainable records of the past, we, the living, occupy a space of too large importance and interest in our own eyes; we look upon the world too much as our own, too muoh as if we had poe sessed it and should possess it forever, and forget that it is a mere hostelry, of which we occupy the apartments for the time, which others better than we have sojourned in before.— John RusJcin . Thebe is a tariff on skeletons, and the Government must have, in the course of time, derived quite a revenue from the importation of ballet girls, to Say nothing of Bernhardt— Lowell Citizen. The Scriptures are published in 250 languages or dialects. . We know from experience St. Jacobs Oil will cure rheumatism.— Peorta,lll. x Ptorian is -- feSSISi