Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — Against Light and Knowledge. [ARTICLE]

Against Light and Knowledge.

Smith —Beastly headache I have this morning! Too many brandies and soda last night, I’m afraid. Brown—Don’t feel up to much myself; had lobster salad for supper and haven’t slept a wink. Jones—Well, just look at the frightful cold I caught last night. Brown—Why, where were you ? Jones— At the health exhibition. Smith and Brown (together)—Why, so was I. [All groan]— London Fun.

Mrs. L. E. Hillis, of Elgin, 111, has a copy of the well known poem: “Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud 1” in the handwriting of Abraham Lincoln. She was once a member of a concert company, which chanced to put up at the same hotel with Mr. Lincoln in a Western town, when he was a candidate for the Presidency. In the evening the singers entertained the company in the parlor for a time, and then called upon Mr. Lincoln. “My friends,” said he, “I couldn’t sing a tune, not even ‘OldHundred,’if it were to save my life, but I can recite a poem for you.” Then stepping to the other side of the parlor that he might face them all, he said: “I will recite to you what I consider one of the finest productions of the English language,” and then in an impressive manner recited the poem. As Mr. Lincoln was leaving the room after his recitation, Mrs. Hillis asked him who the author of the poem was and where it could be found. Lincoln replied that he did not know. "But,” he added, “if you wish it I will write you out a copy of it.” The next morning while Mrs.' Hillis was eating her breakfast, Lincoln handed her the copy he had promised. It was written on the old-fashioned blue legal cap. Fruit pickers have adapted glass jars for putting up fruit They claim that owing to the habit of unscrupulous dealers of putting up decayed and inferior fruit in tin, it became necessary for their own protection that they should use a transparent vessel, through which the contents can be seen. The glass jars are about 10.) per cent, more costly than the tin cans, but can be used any number of times.