Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — Fortunately. [ARTICLE]
Fortunately.
I was chatting with a bright yotmg girl the other evening at » small German, when our attention was directed to a tall and handsome woman who had just entered the room. “Who is she?” asked my cpmpanion, and I, wishing to be poetical, answered: “A daughter of the gods.” “I don’t know her,” my partner replied, critically examining the new-comer through her lorgnette, “the gods are not in our set.” —New York World . A sleeping-cab porter who traveled 650 miles with ten passengers worth over $3,000,000 each says that his perquisites were only 50 cents.
