Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1885 — Self-Depreciation. [ARTICLE]

Self-Depreciation.

When you meet a Scotch farmer ri ing a huge horse of' seventeen han< and remark to him what a grand ai mal he has got: “Yes,” is the huml reply, “it’s a nice powny.” We depi ciate ourselves and our belongings, € pecting to be appreciated. You remei ber the lady described by Hann More, who frequently declared that h sins were grievous and innumerab At length her husband, thinking comfort her, said that she was vexii herself unduly. She was not so ba No doubts he had her faults. Whereu on the penitent, with intense bitterm and self-assertion, burst forth in ac monious tones: “And pray what a they, sir?” Indeed, she added mu more, which may be found in the pro er place. But this was the keynote. Longmans’ Magazine. When a young man attempts to p his arm around a girl, she can repu him politely by telling him to "wa not, want not.” In the height of the peach season t daily receipts in New York City oft run as high as 200,000 baskets. , Left-handed penmanship is- n< taught, it is said, in a. number American schools. The wine oup Is the lather ofeln; and i whisky ju» is the «t«p Unther.