Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1886 — Rough on Dallas. [ARTICLE]

Rough on Dallas.

Said a Dallas woman to a female friend: “You should make your husband quit chewing tobacco. If you tell him to quit, he will give it up, I suppose.” “Yes, if I ask him to, but I am not going to ask him to quit chewing tobacco. ” “When he kisses you, don’t the taste of tobacco make you sick?” “Yes, but I want him to keep on chewing. He kisses three cr four other women, and the tobacco makes them sicker than it does me, for I’ve got used to it already.” —Texas Siftings. Prof. F. B. Dexter, of Yale, has written a paper on “Town Names in Connecticut,” and says that of 100 names given by public authority before the Declaration of Independence at least fifty-seven were taken direct from British* sources, seventeen came from peculiarities of location, eight from the Bible, and only three from names of prominent early settlers and founders. He calls attention to the fact that, while Massachusetts has towns like Hull, Beading, and Manchester, named to commemorate the victories of the Parliament in England, Connecticut has none such. This omission was studied, he thinks, and indicated a different attitude of tlm State toward England from that of Massachusetts.

In this fast age old Father Time ought to trade off his scythe for a reaper, binder aud harvester combined.