Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — Polite but Truthful. [ARTICLE]

Polite but Truthful.

The conductors of the Paris omnibuses are witty as well as polite. The other day a woman of immense size stood on the sidewalk and hailed a passing vehicle. “Is there room for me?” she asked. “No, madame,” replied the conductor, with great suavity. “There is only room for one.” —From the French. The family of Hon. W. B. Hoke, Judge of the Jefferson County, Ky., Court, used St. Jacobs Oil with signal success. The eye-stone is really the front door of a sea-snail found on the South African coast. Thousands of people believe tlint these bits of shell are alive, from the fact that they will move when placed in vinegar. The philosophical explanation of the movement is that the acid, acting upon the substance of the shell, generates little bubbles of gas, which force it along through the fluid. When you pick out an eye-stone be sure to get one with grooves on the flat side. Those that are smooth all over are taken from the crayfish, but are no good.