Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — Just Cause Against the Pastor. [ARTICLE]

Just Cause Against the Pastor.

“Glad I met you, Deacon Broadbrim,” exclaimed Farmer Gallagher, on encountering the pious brother the ther morning. “Was just going down your house. I’ve got a complaint to make against the minister.” “Against Brother Psalmody!” excla'med the deacon in amazement. “Why, what on earth can he have done?” “Well,” replied Farmer Gallagher, “he’s been guilty of using slang; and I claim that any minister what’ll sling around slang ain’t fit to preach in the pulpit. ” “How did it come about?” continued the deacon. “Well, the parson was down to our house last evening, and our Maria was telling him that Jerusha Jane (that’s my wife) wasn’t very peart and chirpy, and that Doctor Pillcrammer recommended a change of scenery and air, and advises that she be sent out to her sister’s in Minnesota for a few months, and before I got a chance to put in a word of objection, we was all shocked to hear the pastor yell out: “ ‘Let ’er go, Gallagher.’ ” —Carl Pretzel's National. Paper made of cotton was in use in the eleventh century; made of linen, in 1319; and its manufacture was first introduced into England in 1588. The use of straw in paper manufacture dates back to the opening year of the present century. Lanterns were invented by Alfred the Great in 890.