Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1886 — Ruskin as a Snubber. [ARTICLE]

Ruskin as a Snubber.

Mr. Euskin certainly cannot be accused of treating bis friends and correspondents very graciously. He has written tc inform them that he must decline correspondence in the spring, as he prefers spending such days as may be spared to him in the fields instead of at his desk. If I were one of those “friends and correspondents,” I should, by all means, allow him to enjoy his “rest” to the full, and, at the same time, not only pardon his declining correspondence in the spring, but would allow him to take the same course in the summer, autumn, and winter. If the people will fawn and cringe to such “illustrious” egotists, they cannot expect to be pited when they receive a.i occasional disagreeable snub.— London Truth. A gigantic seaweed more than 1,500 feet long has been found near the equator by the ship Clever, Captain John Stone, portions being taken to Montevideo.