Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — Almost a Native. [ARTICLE]

Almost a Native.

‘Are you a native of the State?’ asked the judge of the United States court, addressing a fat man who had been summoned to testify in a case of illicit distilling. ‘Mostly, jedge.’ T mean, weie you bom in this State?’ ‘I understan i. I wa’n’t bom here, but !’m mighty nigh a native.’ Vame here when you were quite young, 1 suppose? ’ ‘No, sir, ain’t been here but about ten years.’ ‘How old are you?’ ‘Fifty.’ ‘Then how is it that you are very nearly a native of the State?’ ‘Well, when I came here i only weighed about a hundred pounds. Now [ weigh 240, so you see 140 of me are native, while only 100 pounds came from Missoury.’ Arkansaw Traveler.

In a speech at Birmingham, England. John Bright referred to the American tariff and stated that it prohibits the farmers of the United States from exchanging the products of their farms with the products of the artisans of Birmingham or with the weavers of Lancashire, but compelled them to exchange with the protected manufacturers of their own eountiy, who. in some cas :s, do not give*half what the farmers could get abroad.

A scientific journal says that the ear of a clam is at the base of the foot. It must be funny to see a clam walk around on its ear listening for earth quakes. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s war horse ha fJ been sent to the New Orleans Exposition. v .