Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — Where to Draw the Line. [ARTICLE]

Where to Draw the Line.

.Co’t-DUpatxSi Although II ike good English aames, yet I cannct say that I am one of those no P’d-ienee with the adoption foreign names or of foriegn terminations to English .names. There is undoubtedly an insane deEire on the part of m&qy young iladies, especially, to have odd-sounding names or to affect French spelling, and as long as it tends towards euphony let them do so, but the line should be drawn somewhere. /We can stand Mae and Marie, Lucie, ,yut»4 $ 'host of other softened and foreign names, but J thought it was a little .too far when I read on a, young ladies’ names Miss Belliet 'We darw the liae at that.’ |F -■■ «•». The operation of fixing the denomi’’nations of -the charred and mined notes found in the safes of the express com-jf-fcanyafter the late railroad aooident Mfisr/Wastiington.. keeps the women •experts Jn the Treasury pretty busy. ,Tt is done solely by women, and so Bmm?■■is their skill in handling that they accomplish re* |||»||M:Would be utterably unattainthem. It h s been found experance that a counterfeit uayrough half the banks in the Without being detected, until back often torn artd mut Hated, ®t&ihe-i|ands of the Treasury women. 180^ certa ' n of detection. They -.•l|||aKy..eves and feel of a note i. they suspect it. > If it feels wrong, in half a minute point out the incongruities KHHlp&terfeit.- Lx, j3WI known citizen attempted to me that G’ol Vilas’s ■.wne s®wld be given a French pro_ln speaking of him, he •taid. we-thou d asy G’ol- Vee’.a givin a awl to the final. As he insistwas the onl y proper way in HHHgl||hpeak of the new postmasterMMOOried it on.the first Wisconsin ‘‘What do you think of ■HHMHstment of Veela?” I asked. sMwwri< u es* he's all right-” “Veela.’ 1 ritP'OBF “ I guess Lamar’s all Then I spelled it out Bill Vilas? ’■VhyHMMtW.io before?’ So it doesn’t '’WB"* letterHMMbeks ago, at a swell party in daughter of a greui -■iig-BttiV" Oppeard in such a scant was described as “two loops • at| d a belt around the waM*” When she loft the room it was she gone bom- to **"*”•“ (n "' l ‘ re,,,,! '

Waiunf grov. > are beiug t pUnied in many parts- at the west. Queer Olga, of Greece, is said to be the most beautiful woman now on a throne. The enthusiastic miners of Eagle City Arizona, presented f 5,000 in gold dust to the mother of the first clii'd born thereThe largest and fines memorial stone in the Washington monument is the one presented by the Corporation of delphia‘Pat have you any prairii ain Ireland like we have in Illinois?’ To be shore we have. Didn’t yez Ivor hear of Tipperary?’ The White House has been painted so often that the white lead upon it is said to be by actual mersurement, nearly a quarter of an inch thick. An old colored man who bad imbibed too freely on New Jersey applejack, said: ‘Some .people is tilled with delight, but Use tilled wid de lightening.’ >.«♦».. Turpentine in small quantities mav be used with advantage in the laundry, but resin, which isusualy found in soap, is injurious, discoloring some goods and shrinking woollens- — ■ «»<•► Black walnut sawdust is now mixed with linseed gum and moulded into ornamentation tor furniture- When varnished it is handsome and mure durable and carved wood.‘I feel like Joseph,’ said a sorrowing husband; ‘Hue Joseph in the Bible;lor jpy wife is (lead; aht was cremated, and yonder stands ttie.urn with the ashes io It, and, like Joseph, I love my Pot-of-tear.’ Statistics show . that one hundred thousand people aye killed by whiskey .where one pereoi jh killed by a mad dqg. And yet must eteiybody would rather tackle a glaasot whiskey than a mad. dog, The juice of the curious ink-plant of New-Granda requircs.no preparation for being used for writing. The color is reddish when first applied to paper but soon.,becomes a deep black which is very.duraole. Tbe United States cavalry have introdtteed a drill of teaching their horse to lie down and firing frem behind tbem.lt is said that the instruction is not difficult and was achieved in less than three anon ths. ‘Mamma, who tore Mr. Bland’s hair all out*’.said little Mabel. -Hush, child, you mustn’t speak ot suchtbings Papa is bald, itoo, you know.’ ‘Yes, but I want to know who lore Mr, Bland’s hair all-uui; he isu’t autrnied.’ Saidthatdapper little lawyer, Ambrose H, Purdy, ‘There is a restaurant in New York city where 1 .-an get twentytour kinds of meat ao< vegetables for fifteen ceute.* ‘How yuu do that?’ asked Omlonel Fellows. 1 order hash.’ Han Augustine, Florid., mum the first permanent settlement m-.de by Europeans, within the limit of .the present United Stales- The setUemeut was established in 1565, and San Augustine is therefore, the oldest city in the United StatesNear Tallahsssa. Fla-, there resides a .man who has Jived in the same house, on the same farm .all bis life, but has al.ways voted and, paid taxes in two different States. His home is near the Georgia line, and the several purveys have placed him in a differandt. State each timeA brilliant black varnish for iron, stone, or wood -can be made by .ihor oughly incorporation ivory black with common shelae varnish. The mixture should be laid on Mery thin. But ordinary, coal varnish will serve the same purpose In moat .cases quite as well, and ,js net nearly so expensive. The exchange editor has been discontinued at the White House. He was invented by Hayes and continued under Garfield .and Arthur. .Ais business was to clip favorable notices of the president and file them for;future reference Colonel JJamont having once been a managing editor, drew the blue pencil through that useless executive appendage-

The New Star.recently printed chare shewing the location of 465 liquor saloons in the Eighth Assembly district. There are iu the,city of New -.York 10,875 licensed aud .about 1 .oOfi unlicensed sadoons, making a total of 11’8,75 saloons, or one for every 119 inhabants. TLe total number of bakers, butchers and grocers in that city is only 7,611. * J Two Highlanders were seen on an ocean steamer, one of whom .eajried and lined ostentatiously a large red handkerchief. Hisefriead, mthe,courses of the voyage, produced an orange and eoihmeuccd to suck it. He of the UaiiCkeackeif looked .curiously at it for a few moments and the exclaimed - ‘Here’ Sandy, mon. g< e us a suck o’ your orange, and I’ll gie ye low o’ niy napkin. ’ The act forfeiting the Texas Pacific land grant which has just passed 'Jongress res’ores to the people 15,000,00ff--000 acres of their domain,. Thisjwill make 93,750 homestead farms or 180 acres, which will soon be opened for settlement and culwation. The Texts Pacific is but the beginning «f a restoration to the people j>f the domain that has been forfeited by the railroad corporations.

A solution of oxalic acid has been used tor removing ink stains from cotton, linen’ or the fingers’ but it is attended with the danger of injuring textiles and and the skin. A much safer and better treatment of ink or rust stains consists of the application oi two parts of powdered cream of tartar and one part of finely powdered oxalic acid- Shake up the ingredients well together and apply the powder with a dry rag to the dampened stain. When the snot has d'sippcar d u.e pirt should be well Wash© I.