Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — Crazy on Pumpkins. [ARTICLE]

Crazy on Pumpkins.

A man started to ride home from San Jose, Cal. His road lay for miles through fields of pumpkins and squashes. The constant pumpkin panorama finally dethroned his reason, and he reached home a maniac, crying: “See the squashes, see the squashes!” He had to be strait-jacketed and sent to the asylum.— Exchanqe. Conkling, when at Utica, attends Trinity Episcopal Church. Just across the aisle from him sits an old gentleman named Sherman, for years a prominent politician. He and Mr. Conkling are not on speaking terms. One f-un-day, during the recital of the Apostles’ Creed, Mr. Sherman paid particular attention to see whether Roscoe bowed his head at the customary place. Mr. Sherman says: “Well, sir, he stood there with his head erect, and an expression on his face which said louder than words: ‘lf the Almighty wants me to bow to him, he must bow first.’ ” A miss-fortune—failing to “strike” the lottery. "Say, why is everything Either at sixes or at sevens?’* Probably, my dear nervous sister, because you are suffering from some bi the diseases peculiar to your sex. You have a “draggingdown ’ fee ing, the back ache, jou are debilitated, you have pains of various kinds. Take l>r. K. V. Pierce’s ‘ Favorite Prescription” and be cured. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists.