Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — Charms of City Life. [ARTICLE]

Charms of City Life.

Occupant third floor flat (wiping her eyes)—What is it you want ? Janitor—The fourth floor sends respects and some flowers fer y’r husband’s coffin, an’ begs you won’t cry so loud,, ’cause it disturbs tho wedding festivities up-stairs.— Omaha World. Prof. Lecleiic, writing in. Cosvios, maintains that odors are due, not to the emanations, as such, of so called, odoriferous bodies, but to the vibratory movement among such emanations, duo to processes of oxidation. Scent, ou this theory, is analogous to sound. Observations in the Atlantic give from forty-four feet to forty-eight feet as the highest measured waves. But such heights are rarely reached, and, indeed, waves exceeding thirty feet are very seldom encountered. Over $3,000,000 worth of eggs are imported into this country every year. Thei great egg probleni for the American peoEle to consider is how to protect our home; ens against the pauper of Eu-% rope. |