Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — Why He Kept His Temper. [ARTICLE]

Why He Kept His Temper.

A small-sized colored man was roundly abusing a brother of color on Antoine street large enough to eat him up. After the abuse had continued for a long time without result a white man said to the party of the second part, “Why don’t you pick him up and mop the snow with his legs?” “I could do it, boss. ” “Then why don’t you ?” “Waal, I was considerin’. If we have a bout I shall prob’ly be 'rested. If I’m ’rested my name will be in de papers. If Iget in de papers de man up on Calhoun street who owns de house dat I moved out ob in de night will know whar to find me, an’ gently elucidate de info’njation dat he wants de fo’ months’ back rent.”— Detroit Free Frees.

The New York Evening Telegram says: Tony Pastor was cured of rheumatic pains by St Jacobs OiL He praises its efficacy. , Thebe are eleven States in which women can vote at the elections for School Directors. “Women for these offices,” says Susan B. Anthony, “are particularly appropriate, since a large proportion of the school teachers are of the same sex. I find that they show much more tact than men, a, of course, they dp in every position." In those eleven States the qualifications for voting are m nearly everv instance similar to those of men. In Kentucky, however, a woman has to be a widow to poll, and in Michigan a taxpayer. A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author’s comment.— William Shens tone. Mbs Jambs E. Wirhan, of Harrison, U, writes: “Dr. Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla cured mv daughter of dyspepsia and irregularities. w A soap mine has been discovered in California. The substance is a deposit of white earth, free from 'grit and impregnated with a small percentage of potash. It is easily sliced into bars, and for cleansing purposes it is a fair substitute for manufactured soap. A Hartford woman who advertised the loss of a pocket-book containing a large sum of money received no less than seven proposals of marriage during the next three days. True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.— Cicero.