Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — Two Kinds of Powder. [ARTICLE]

Two Kinds of Powder.

They were having a heraldic discussion in the Faubourg St. Germain. Said a Marchioness a la mode, whose title is of this century, to an elderly Marquis, whose title was given to the family when the megatherium and the mastodon innocently played together on the plains of France: “I see, dear Marqu s, that our coats-of-arms are almost the same; we have each barrels in them.” x “Yes, madame; but mine contains barrels of gunpowder, while yours contains barrels of powder for your charming face,”— Town Topics,