Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — The Pot-Luek Club. [ARTICLE]

The Pot-Luek Club.

At a meeting of the Pot-Luck Club each male member, according to promise,, contributed a specimen of the handiwork in the culinary art, and the resnit was quite novel “ Here,” said the artist, sketching the twentieth letter of the alphabet, “is a drawing of “ T.” His contribution was highly esteamed. “And here,” said the printer, producing a handful of type, ‘‘ is some ‘pi’ of my own making. ” He said this in a crusty tone. “And I’ve brought a hot goose,” said the tailor, dropping his iron on the table. He was greeted with hisses. “And I,” stud the poet, with a Milesian aooent, proffering a manuscript “have here some tender-loins.” His offering was voted very beefiting. “And I hope,” said a sad and timidlooking member, presenting his wife, “you will relish this ‘rib.* ” And then he added in a stage of whisper: “I can spare her, therefore she is a spare rib.” The carpenter now stepped forward and said he had prepared “a little plane board,” —placing the board on the table as he spoke. The shoemaker said he thought some of the members needed a little brain food, therefore he had brought a “ sole,” also a “tongue.” The former was pretty “ scaly. “And here,” said a smart young man, with a goneness in his voice, introducing his best girl, “ is a little drunk. ” He was pronounced “too fresh,” and his girl gave him the cold shoulder all the rest of the evening. Then a newspaper humorist cast his eyes over the assemblage, called it a “rare meet,” poured somed gritty substance ont of a cone-shaped piece of paper, and made Joe Miller turn over in nis grave by remarking : “ The best 1 can do in the culinary line is the sand—whioh is here.” The club immediately adjourned out of respect for his gray-haired pun, saying that they didn’t want any “taffy” in their dessert.— The Judge. How fortunate beyond all others is the who, ia order to adjust himself to fate, is not required to oast away bis whole preceding life. A manuscript treatise by Copernicus has been discovered in the Stockholm Observatory.