Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1883 — A Well-Done Cot. [ARTICLE]

A Well-Done Cot.

A Chicago head of a family surprised his grown-up sons when they compplained of the tough roast beef which the old gentleman had bought for the best cut. “My sons, ” said he “do not condemn me. The meat is not so tender as I would desire to give you. But don’t leave my table; don’t break up my business and ruin me, by ceasing to be my boarders. Give me another and I will do better. I beg of you stay with me another week." The boys took in the “well-done” cut in silence, and the father smiled complacently as he helped himself to the choicest morsel in the piece. Ik the whole world was put into one scale and my mother into the other the world would kick the beam.— Lord Langdale. The reaping machine came into practical use about the year 1853, and the self-binder made its first good record in 1876. An Indiana man has patented a gopher attachment to corn cultivators. i ... -ii ■ .v t , .