Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — PITH AND POINT. [ARTICLE]

PITH AND POINT.

A keeper’s|tree— I ’aah^ BabbeiiS were first made in the eooper ige. A bod and lyin’ eatchee the biggest fish of the season. “ Dabling, this potato is oniy half done.” “ Then eat the other half, love.” PeofiiE 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 ? It remains tide, of course. 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 piece of his mind he wishes to destroy (he 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.”