Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION! [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION!

Mrs. Kirsch’s School of Elo cutnn will be held in the School Building, and will commence Thursday, Jan. 24th. A day class will meet at 4‘ p. m., and a night class at 7:30 p. m., on Thursday of each week, A Children’s Class will also meet on Fridays at 4 p. m. Th ere will be no interference with the regular school work, and no book will be needed. The school will close with a public entertainment at the Opera House, in which all pupils who show sufficient ad vancement will have an immediate opportunity to put in practice wliat they nave learned. Tuition for ten class lessons, each an hour in length, $2 50: Children, $1 50. Come provided with pencil and common blank book to copy exercises from the blackboard. The Quarterly Conference of the Church of God will be held at Rensselaer, commencing on Friday night, February Bth, to continue over the following 8 nday. Able speakers from abroad expected. The public cordially Invited to attend.

The National GreenbackParty of Jasper county, Ind., are requested to meet in Rensselaer. on Saturday, February 16th, 1884, for the purpose of appointing delegates te the State Convention, to be held at Indianapolis on the 22d of February next. A full attendance urgently solicited. S. SJ. Ritchey, Chairman County Committee. January 28,1884.

Taking the Queen & Shill ing.—C >l. Thomas French, a resident of Atkinson, Maine, claims to have been of the gallant 600 in the charge at Balaitiavn. T5 on ? h colonel is noTT Wma o* ing served in her Britannic majesty’s army, he was not anxious to join it during the war, and gives the following interesting account of how he enlisted: “While. I lived in Burleigh I fell in with twq recruiting officers who were hunting for just such a fellow as I. You’ve heard of the taking of the Queen’s shilling. When a fellow accepts this coin from a recruiting officer its a token of his enlistment and he can not back out. The fellow who finally hooked me had been teasing me to enlist for a long time. I went into an ale house to drink with him. Unobserved, he slipped a shilling into my mug of ale. When I drank I heard it rattle and threw it out. ‘My man, you’ve taken the queen’s shilling.’ I knew there was no use to dodge. I enlisted.”

The Post Office Department has issued instructions to postmasters to redeem outstanding three feent stamps and stemmed envelopes in stamps of other denominations, ghe stamped envelopes are to be redeemed at the price for which they were sold originally, but they must be in good condition. Stamped envelopes spoiled in directing are still redeemable at their postal value only. Ex-Governor John M. Palmer, of Illinois,was in early life a clock peddler. Arriving at Carthage, 111., late one night he was put by the landlord in a room with Stephen A- Douglas. Douglas liked him and advised him to quit selling cloeks and study law. Palmer did/as requested, and so far as is known has never had oc oasion to regret the change. ~ , » Governor w aller. of Comjeciti cut, th inks the co u iriry solir els are not So good aft .they I were thirty years ago.