Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — He Didn’t Stay. [ARTICLE]

He Didn’t Stay.

Just before he reached the corner he consulted his watch, end the bells at the same time struck 3. He gazed up and down, looked into a store window, and wore away five minutes. Then he turned to a boy trying to play marbles all alone in the grass, and cautiously asked: “Bub, have you seen a lady standing on this corner within a few minutes ?” “Yaas,” was the prompt reply. “She was here about ten minits ago. ” “And where did she go?” “Down that way. Man come along and she went off with him. ” “Did, eh?” “Yaas, but you needn’t feel had. I heard the man say he’d come back with a shotgun and shoot blue blazes outer some one. If you’ll wait he’ll certainly come back.” A car was passing, and the man made only throe jumps to reach it, and, as he sat down, the passengers noticed that he appeared like a man suffering great mental anxiety —lost his dog, perhaps. —Detroit Free Press.

Bacteria, considering they are such small affairs, are attracting a great deal of attention. In Munich a laboratory has been established to study their forms and habits, and a book which was issued in 1880 has lately been revised because it was behind the times. Every medical journal is pretty sure to have some item of news about bacteria. “What is more awful to contemplate,” said a lecturer, glaring about him, “than the relentless power of a maelstrom?” And a henpecked-looking man in the rear of the building softly replied, “the femalestrom. ” As there is nothing in the world great but man, there is nothing truly great in man but character.— W. W. diverts.