Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1888 — Jimmy Brown and the Ies [?] Party. [ARTICLE]

Jimmy Brown and the Ies [?] Party.

TWre was pretty nearly a wnole week that I kept out of trouble, but it didn't last. Boys are born to fly upward like the sparks that trouble, and yesterday I was “up to mischief again,” as Sue said, though I never had the least idea of doing any mischief. How should an innocent boy, who might easily have been an orphan had things happened in that way, kn ow all about cooking and chemistry and such, I should like to know. It was really Sue’s fait Nothing would do but she must have a party, and of course she must hate ice-cream. Now the ice-cream that our cake-shop m«, makes isn’t good enough for her, so siu got father to buy an ice-cream freezer, and she said she would make the icecream herself. I was to help her, and she sent me to the store to order some salt I asked her what she wanted of salt, and she said you couldn’t freeze Ice-cream without plenty of salt, and that it was almost as necessary as ice. I went to the store and ordered the salt, and then had a game or two of ball with the boys, and didn’t get home till late in the afternoon. There was Sue freezing the ice-cream, and suffering dreadfully, ■o she said. She had to go and drees right awav, and she told me to keep turning the ice-cream freezer until it froze, “and don’t run off and leave me to do everything again, you good-for-noth-ing boy; I wonder how you can do it.* I turned that freezer for ever so long, but nothing would freeze, so I made up my mind that it wanted more salt. I lidn’t want to disturb anybody, so I quietly went into the kitchen and got the salt-cellar and emptied it into the ice-cream. It began to freeze right away; but I tasted it and it was awful salt, so I got the jug of golden syrup and poured about a pint into the ice-cream, and when it was done it was a beautiful straw color. But there was an awful scene when the party tried to eat that ice-cream. Sue nanded it round and said to everybody: “This is my icecream, and you must be sure to like it.” The first one that she gave it to was Dr. Porter. He is dreadfully fond of icecream, and he smiled such a big smile, and said he was sure it was it delightful, * and took a whole spoonful. Then he jumped up as if something had bit him, and went out of the door in two jumps, and we didn’t see him again. Then three more men tasted their ice-cream, and jumped up and ran after the doctor, and two girls said, “Oh, my!” and held their handkerchiefs over their faces, and turned just a# pale. And then everybody else put t ir toe- cream down on the table, and said thank you, they guessed they wouldn’t take any. The party was regularly spoiled, and when I tasted the ice-cream I didn’t wonder. It was worse than the best kind of strong medicine. Sue was in a dreadful state of mind, and when the party had gone home—all but one man, who lay under the apple tree all night and groaned like he was dying, only we thought it was the cats—she made me tell her all about the salt and the golden syrup. She Wouldn* Npifere that I had tried to do my best an dida’t mean any harm, Father took her fMM, aud said I ought to eat some of tire ioe-cream since I made it; but I said Pd lather go upstairs with him. So I went Some of these days people will begto to understand that they are just waCSing and throwing away a boy who always tries to do his beat, and perhaps they’ll be sorry when it is too late.—JZorper’* Young JPtopU.

A Group of Queens. The queens in Southern Europe Ml • remarkably interesting group ot women. The Queen of Roumania, or Camen Sylva, is not only a poetess, I ana full of picturesque romance, but she lately underwent examination for a diploma that might give her a right to do certain teaching in the schools. Everybody knows of the skillful manner in which Christina, the Queen of Spain, performs her unwonted duties. And now Margaret of Savoy, th< Queen of Italy, is to appear as an author, with her stories founded on the legends of the middle ages. Among the various languages spoken fluently by this queen is English, in which she leads every new book of importance, keeping herself posted on English poH» acs and gossip. In religious matters she is neither too liberal nor too devote, and she is a passionate patriot. In person she is lovely, fair, and bright, more graceful than majestic, with a feminine sweetness very attractive in a royal personage. Her family relations are perfect; she is the iptimate friend of her young son, the Prince of Naplee; and, often seen on the streets and among the shops, shea Idolized by the Boman poople.— AEas* •er’e > Old Clocks. The old brass clocks went only thp£y hours, and were set in motion by a weight attached to a chain whidh passed pver a sheave having spikes in the groove, which caught in the links of the chain and required to be drawn tsp every day. On the introduction pf the long pendulum, clocks seemed to have assumed a different character. Catgjlj was substituted for the chain, and barrels were introduced on which the catgut was wound up, and a greater length of line being employed, clocks were made to go for eight days instead of thirty hours, and a chime of bells playing every quarter of an hour was often added; the weights and long pendulum hung down, and, as there was danger of their action being interfered with, tall wooden cases were made to protect them. This was the origin of the tall, upright clock cases, which were often made of ornamental woods and enriched with fine marquetry. The earlier cases were made of oak and walnut, the mahogany cases being of the following century, when that word was in-