Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1883 — She Wasn’t Irish. [ARTICLE]

She Wasn’t Irish.

A New England lady was asking her cook about a waitress she proposed to hire, and said: “Mary, is she Irish?” “No, ma’am,” said Mary, “she’s American.” “What is her name, Marv?” “Bridgett O’Conner, ma’am.” “Why, then, of course she is Irish, Mary.” “No, ma’am, she was born in Lynn.” “Oh, but that makes no difference, Mary-; she is not an American.” “Well, in faith, perhaps she ain’t, ma’am. They tell me the real one is red.” Irwin county, Ga., has a curiosity in the shape of a large pine tree with two separate and distinct bodies and with only one top. At a distance of about five feet from each other they grew out of the ground, but the trunks at forty feet high grew together, and from thence up made only one tree and top. Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind; but it is good breeding that sets them off to advantage.— Locke. Over 5,000,000,000 feet of long-leaf pines are now standing in North Carolina. Should you be a sufferer from dyspepsia, indigestion, malaria, or weakness, you caD be cured by Brown’s Iron Bitters. Thu old proverb, “Where there’s a will there's a way,” has been revised to suit tne situation. It now reads, “When there’s a bill we’re away.” Baltimore, Md.—Rev. w. H. Chapman says: “I deem Brown’s Iron Bitters a most valuable tonic for general ill-health.” “Good-by” In the telephone reminds one of autumn; it’s the yell o’ leave