Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — Culinary Item. [ARTICLE]

Culinary Item.

Matilda Snowball is cook for the family of Colonel Percy Yerger. Mrs. Yerger had unexpectedly received company, but was unprepared to entertain them. “Matilda, we will have a poor dinner. I expect we will have to make aa apology. ” “Make a poligy! How kin we make a poligy ? We ain’t got no eggs, no butter, no miflin. ’’ —Texas Siftings. To the crook who dines in a restaurant the silver spoons are like some kinds of medicine—to be taken after meals.— St. Paul Herald. London was originally a mere collection of wattle huts in the vicinity of the present Tower.