Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — Ruined. [ARTICLE]

Ruined.

Jack Packard, of E<*ho Hollowy an old fellow who had been a squatter all his. life, called on Colonel Jickerson,. the well-known lawyers. Old Jake-had, a sluort time before, employed the law*yer as counsel in a divorce case. “Good-morning, Uacle Jake, good?morning, sir.” “Hy’r!” said the (dd man a&he sati down. “Col’n’, yer tole me that you’d have that ’vorce by yistidy. ” “Yes, I know that, Uncle Jake, but,! have not been ablb to obtain it. ” “What!” the old man exclaimed, springing to his feet. “Yes, haven’t been able to-get it.”’ “Wall, I’ll be- durned. I thought, yon had got it a®’ I staked my all oa : your promise, a»” now I’m, ruinecL”' “How so, Unale Jake?” • “W’y, bein’’ sartin thaS yer had; the i documents I got married yistidy.” 1 — Arkansaiv H'lmveler. A Utica naturalist 3ays that songbirds in that region are fast disappearing. The? wren is almost unknown, the bobolink, that formerly abounded on the Mohawk meadows, is disappearing rapidly, while blue birds, yellow birds, orioles, and even woodpeckers, highhoes and crows are becoming scarce. Somebody says that the odor of fresh paint may be removed from a room by placing a saucer of ground ooffee in the apartment. Now we understand why it is a man generally chews ground coffee when he is painting the town red. A German embryologist, Professor Gerlack, has devised a method for watching the growth of unhatched birds through a small glass window made at the sharper end of the egg.