Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1886 — Unconscious Poets. [ARTICLE]

Unconscious Poets.

Silas Wegg was not the only man who dropped into poetry. Lincoln, in some of his messages, dropped into it quite unconsciously. He wrote: “Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war—may soon pass away.” There is nothing very poetical about mathematics, yet Whewell, in his “Treatise on Mechanics,” unwittingly rhymed when he wrote: “For no force, however great— Can stretch a chord, however fine— Into a horizontal line—That is exactly str aigh t. ” Prof. Grothe, of the Brooklyn Board of Health, analyzed Red Star Cough Cure and found it absolutely free from poisons and opiates, and safe and sure. Price, 25 cents. The truly good can enter places where the devil would blush to be seen.— Whitehall Times. Physicians prescribe Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, on account of its great curative powers. Have the faith-cure people overlooked the fact that John L. Sullivan is a heeler? The most desirable hairdressing ever offered to the public is Hall’s Hair Renewer.