Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — Took Things Easy. [ARTICLE]

Took Things Easy.

San Francisco exchange: “Is it possible!” exclaimed the new chaplain to the worst thief in the penitentiary. “Are you fifty-two years old? My unfortunate friend, you don’t look thirty!” “No,” replied the thief, humbly. “I don’t show my age, but that is because I take things so easy.” And the good chaplain told him that was right; that care and worry made men old faster than hard work. Pbede is never more offensive than when it condescends to be civil; whereas, vanity, when it forgets itself, naturally assumes good-humor.—Cum-berland. A sample of black pepper analysis by a New York chemist was found to consist entirely of adulterations, without an iota of pepper in it. A Kansas City paper' claims that that city is the home or headquarters of ranchmen who have $21,830,000 in cattle and land. To wait upon the seventy-six Senators there are 242 employes, not counting police, watchmen, and librarians. -