Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — Musical. [ARTICLE]

Musical.

“Did any notes, William?” asked a young lady of her beau, as she turned away from the piano. “Not that I noticed,” was the reply, “but I understand your father did.” “Why, what instrument was he playing on?” “The Board of Trade.” “I’ll see if ma was calling me, ” said she, as she kicked the cuspidore into his hat and left the room.— Newman Independent. A man left the table at his hotel the other day because there was a dwarf present. He said good digestion could not wait on appetite where there was any d ner-mite. The landlord says that this facetious individual ought to be shot from the deadly level of a gun.— Chicago Tobacco World. Old putty can be removed without injury to the sash or glass by passing a hot soldering iron over it. The heat of the iron softens it readily, and permits its removal with a knife or chisel without much trouble. Tobacco raiding in North Carolina is not so bad a business. A Warrenton farmer refused SI,OOO for his crop of seven acres. $ A man may talk continually and not be eloquent; sound and substance are not twins.