Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — PITH AND POINT. [ARTICLE]

PITH AND POINT.

A boardino-housb keeper's|tre®— I ’aehj Barbels were first made in the cooper *«e. A rod and lyin' catches the biggest fish of the season. “ Darling, this potato is only half done.” “ Then eat tne other half, love.” People talk of a visit to the salt sea for the purpose of getting a little fresh air. When the river rises one foot what becomes of the other f It remains tide, of coarse. When the Arab has stolen everything else in sight he quietly folds his tent and steals away. When a man threatens to give you a gieoe of his mind he wishes to destroy le peace of yours. When a young man is alone with his best girl he is generally supposed to be “holding his own.” By a mother-in-law—“ You can deceive your guileless little wife, young man, but her father’s wife—never*” The author of the “Little Brown Jug ” was probably in a jugular vein, when he wrote that sometime popular ditty. A bridge over a stream in Missouri bears this legend : “Drive over as faat as you want to, and be durned! ” Everybody, therefore, drives at a walk. A Texas young man shot himself because a young lady refused to dance with him. In his blind rage he probably mistook himself for a rival.