Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1889 — Resenting an Insult. [ARTICLE]

Resenting an Insult.

Robinson—Jackson, I hear that Brown called you a liar last night.” Jackson (bitterly)—Yes, he called me a liar. Robinson—And didn’t you resent it? Jackson (warmly)—Resent it? You bet I did! I told him that was simply a matter of opinion and not of fact. No man can calf me a liar and get away with it. An Ingenious Torturer. A teacher in Bristol who was recently forbidden by the school authorities to punish pupils by putting nicks an inchot two long between then- U uws and tying their hands behind them, r> said to have since then punished the unruly by sealing their moutns with court plaster, o casiou ally seasoned with cavsnn •» - oeen* • All persons having cattle to let in pasture for the season of 1889, will find it to their interest to address us at this place. David w. Shields & Bro. Rensselaer, Ind., March, 89.

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