Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — Sweet Sayings. [ARTICLE]

Sweet Sayings.

“Oh!” “Bah!” “Nice!” “Meanness!” “Too good!” “She flirts!” “Sour grapes!” “Old tomboy!” “Mean old thing!” “A regular liar!” “He makes me sick!” “He drinks on the sly!” “He’s a crabbed old thing!” “She thinks she’s somebody!” “He never could take a joke!” “He never draws a sober breath!” “He’s as poor as a church mouse!” “He’s mortgaged for all he’s worth!" “She doesn’t look decent in anything!” “He ought to be tarred and feathered !” “She married him just for his money!” “He’s tighter than the bark on a birch tree!” “She runs with everybody that comes along!” “He don’t know beans when the bag’s untied!” “They won’t live together for six months, I know!” “I wouldn’t trust him as soon as I would a dog!” “I wouldn’t have him doctor au old sick dog for me!” “If you waut everybody to know it, just tell it to her!” “He ought to be ridden on a rail and taught a good lesson!” The above and hundreds of similar expressions can be heard any day on the streets, in the parlors, in the stores, and in tho homes. A liberal reward is offered to any one who will prepare a similar list of good expressions about people in as common use. Prof. Richard A. Proctor maintains that most of the meteor streams with which the earth comes iu contact e derived from the earth itself —that thrown off by. volcanic action at a time when the internal forces of our planet were sufficiently active to give them the initial velocity requisite to carry them beyond the earth’s attraction —some twelve miles a second. Comets, which he regards as the parents of meteor streams, he thinks may have originated outside our solar system. Most of the < omets whose orbits belong to our system he thinks originated in the larger planets. The sun is now perhaps giving birth frequently to comets, which probably pass beyond the limits of its attraction.