Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — Where the Rhetoricians Shine. [ARTICLE]

Where the Rhetoricians Shine.

The only fine writing one sees in the newspapers these days is in the exciting accounts of the warfare between the rival baking powder companies and the different systems of insurance.— Atlanta Constitution. Recent observations, according to Mr. E. J. Miers, of the British Museum, show that crabs do not reach great depths in the ocean. The Challenger expedition obtained few specimens from points more than 400 fath-„ oms below the surface, and only a single specimen was found at a depth of 1,000 fathoms. A GENTLEMAN in quest of a house addressed himself to the owuer: "I 3ee that you have advertised a srnaM house to let.” “Yes, sir.” “Is it large?”