Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — Frankness. [ARTICLE]

Frankness.

Mistress—“ The coffee is so strong this morning that it’s absolutely bitter, Kathleen.” Maid —“Yes, ma’am. Th’ polaceman on this bate do be comphlanin’ ay th’ wakeness av it all winter, an’ durin’ th’ cowld wither cook is afther humorin’ th’ poor divil a bit.”— Tid-Bits. Cardinal de Richelieu, the famous prime minister of France during the reign of Louis XIII., died in 1642, after twenty years’ reign as the real head of the country, the King being little better than an imbecile.