Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1887 — He Has Them on His List. [ARTICLE]

He Has Them on His List.

“There is no more disagreeable person on earth,” says a quiet gentleman, “than the strong man who, every time he shakes hands with you, squeezes your fingers to a pulp, or every time he meets you on the street catches the tenderest spot on your arm and pinches it until you wince. The man who slaps you on the leg when he comes to sit down with you ought to be treated to the same dose, and I think there ought to be framed a general statute to provide for the punishment of the big men who seize every opportunity to make themselves intolerable to men with less muscle than they have got.”— New York Tribune. Come, read, read, sirrah, and refuse your appetite; feast your mind, and mortify your flesh; read, and take your nourishment in at your eyes; shut up your mouth, and chew the cud of understanding. A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning, is hardly in a condition respectfully to salute the world at any other time of the day.— Douglas Jerrold.