Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1888 — The Meaning Was the Same. [ARTICLE]

The Meaning Was the Same.

Perhaps there is too much progressive euchre about. At any rate a small boy in a New England household who Las learned to read enough to join in the morning exercises, but sometimes bolts a large word, astonished the family one morning when he came to the passage in the Psalms, “Let not mine enemi s triumph over me,” with This rendering, “Let not mine . enemies trump over me.”— Harper’* Magazine. A voting man in Hamilton, Ohio, shot himself becausi his sweetheart would not give him a less. Correct! Any'man who isn’t big enough to help hinself without asking, ought to fill his diminutive soul full of a small arsenal. Ten to one, though, that the “sweetheart” appendage wasn't a Cincinnati poetess.— St. Louis Magazine. A young man ought not to propose too gracefully. If he does the girl may get the idea that he has had more practice than she deems desirable.—Somerville Journal Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most. I •< Glass windows were first Introduced into England in the eighth eentufy.