Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1888 — Definitions. [ARTICLE]

Definitions.

The eldest girl was instructing the youngest brothers and sisters. She was not very old herself, but she was ages older than the others. Eleven is about twenty-one more than seven in the ages of children. They had been discussing purely family matters. “Twins is two. You and George are twins,” said the eleven-year-old. “An’ when it’s three ?” “I guess there is triplets. ” “Triplets! Three’s triplets! And when it’s four?” “Tour! Four’s a quadrille.”— San Francisco Chronicle. Mendoza, first viceroy sent out as the Governor of New Spain, established a mint in Mexico in 1535, which was the earliest institution of the kind in the New World. Gauds are said to have been introduced in the fourteenth century, to; divert Charles VI., King of France,' who had fallen into a state of melan-' choly.