Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — Too Much Gender. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Gender.

A Philadelphia publishing house advertises a certain writer as “the popular American female authoress.” Lest there should still be doubt as to the sex of the person, it might not be out of place, perhaps, to add that this female authoress is a she woman.—Cincinnati Saturday Night. A tumulus at Taplow, England, was recently opened and found to contain a body apparently buried during the Saxon period, a shield, two drinking horns, several articles of jewelry and a quantity of gold fringe which had apparently served as frilling for the corpse. Antediluvian is the only aunt that outlasts time and sense. Fossil remains longer than any other fellow.