Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — A Home Thrust. [ARTICLE]

A Home Thrust.

A humorous editor, living in Austta, Tex, received a cruel rebuke from his wife not long since. She had been to the theater, and en beg return homo S>ve such a very amusing account of e performance that her literary bunband exclaimed: “Why don’t you write that out just M you have told it to me? It would make first-class copy. You ought to Write for the paper. “No, I thank you. One crank in the family is enough,” was the cutting reply.— Texas Siftings. T» was hb first letter heme from 1 boarding-school, and it read as follows j j Dmam Fathbb—l write you before 1 1 write ma beoos I know yon like to set ma mad. I think I will get along with my lessons first-rate. The garden hart is full of chickens, which makes the talking bad. In history I’ve got as far as Alexander the Great. He carried a •word to out knots with. There is an apple orchard half a mile off. The boys play ball in it: after that there ain’t much apples. The minister’s son was ticked this morning for going a fishing on Sunday. He caught lots of fish, and •ays he is going again next Sunday. I think I like the minister’s boy a good deal. Send me some marbles as soon as you can, also a jack-knife and a top. Two of us bovs left a piece of wet soap at the head of the stairs just before daybreak, and by thp time ths cook got to the bottom she was too sick tn p«t breakfast. We have prayers r<. ’i <r »-v-ry dr v and the teacher reads ou: u Bible, but I don’t think it’s so bully as placing tag in a hay loft. From your affectionate son, Samvul —Brooklyn Baffle. "I am shoost as full aah a bag of four/ remarked an inebriate to a sober friend. “There is a difference between you and a sack of flour, however.* *Whas iah difference?” “When a sodb is full it can stand up, but when yon are full you can’t even lie down on the pound without holding on.”—Teams

Thb Arab and Hrs Horse.—The Arabians never beat their Lorses; they never cut their tails; they treat them aently; they speak to them and uoem to hold a discourse; they use them as mends; they never attempt to increase their speed by*the whip, or spur thern. but in cases of great necessity. The! Eever fix them to a stake in the fields, ut suffer them to pasture at large mound their habitations; and they coms running the moment they hear ths <>und of their master’s voice. In cons* queues of such treatment these animals become docile and tractable in tbs highest degree. They resort at night io their tents, and lie down inthu midst of the children, without even hurting them in the slightest manner The little boys and girls are often seen udod the body or neck of the mar* while the beasts continue innffftnaiys and harmless, permitting them to pity with and caress them without injury.