Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — FITH AND POINT. [ARTICLE]

FITH AND POINT.

Easy to mraw—the breath. “A woman’s season”— because. The spirit of *tlie press—apple jack. The kind word that turneth away wrath has no practical effect in turning away a book agent. Never tell a lady that she is “plump as a partridge.” She will think that you are making game of her. Nothing shows the remarkable healthfulness of this country so much as the pension list.— Philadelphia Call The association of fishermen contemplate giving a series of balls next month. They will be fish-balls.— Carl Pretzel’s Weekly. When a bachelor says he is single ! from choice, it makes 'him mad to ask him why the girl made choice of some other fellow, — Texas Siftings. A new stove 'lias bees?, invented for ‘the comfort of travelers. It is to be iPut under the feet, with a mustard plaster on the head, which draws the heat through the whole system. “Business is pretty goo#,” said an undertaker to au interviewer, “but if lying was punished as it was in the days of Ananias, I would have to enlarge any works and purchase fifty more hearses.” The following is a copy of a Will posted on the wall of a country village. “A locture <en total abstinence will be delivered in the open air, and*,a collection will be made at the door expenses.” A Grand street (New York) dyer has placed the following lines over the desk in his shop: „ lam dyeing to live, And living to dye; The longer I live Til* btveer I dye; The more I dye The better I live.

Do sailors give their faith full scope When they sail around Good Hope? —Goeemevr H^rid. Gome poor sailoM, to bad look born, 'Leave Hope behind" to '‘doable the Bom.** ■—Richmond Bam*. ~ Sailors, *tis very had to tell, Looss all Hope *€ape Farewell. Waterloo Obstrver. When all is calm and the sky Is clear; No sailor fears to round Cape Fear. • —Elevated ltaiheay Journal. The sailor hopes to spUoe the main braoe When sailing north around Cape Race. —Louisville Journal. 111 were a Lumtt-tum-lum-tltum-too In the land ot the olive and tig, Tdstt »1 1 day on tti" r «l!e 101-100 And pl-ijr on *-h *> li mrse-me jig. And it i Mb- 11 m c ■*•«« t«s el fall \ A wiM-V-ltH-iutN Vi. Liiat J crave— Bat bory we deep is the thin gam- bobs on my gravel Bo when you’ve reached the land of ynm-yum Aad are freed from alt trouble aid work, Yob’H bum your thumb on your thingee-me-Jiff And bowl fora* asbestos shirt 1 Old Nick will ooafo with his thingmn-bob line 'Ey yttfpjr—f <a-mmiy quails, ■MwaaiaiMWffiUwtbttetned your eptne Win swvtt op aa Mg a- their Mila —Nnrmtm Independent. When A. T. Stewart, the dead millionaird, asked for the girl he wished to marry, her father said Stewart wanted to marry her for her money, whereupon tbe ardent swain replied: “No, sir; yon needn’t leave her a cent I will soon be richer than you, Anyhow.*

men cua tms singular parent Bay: “Go ahead and take her, then, and Heaven bless yon both.” This story was told years ago, and is recalled by the experience of a young man, who, being familiar with the incident, tried it recently on the father of the girl he loved. When the other accused him of being after his money the yonth replied: “Keep your money. I have started a newspaper, and will soon be worth more money than yon ever saw.” And then the girl’s father, instead of saying, “Take her, and Heaven bless yon both,” kicked him ont of the house and a healthy dog bit a peice ont of his leg as he went down the steps. It would seem that all fathers are not constituted alike. One is more credulous than the other.—Norristown Herald.