Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1889 — Outgrown. [ARTICLE]

Outgrown.

“Mrs. Brown. I guarantee that piece of goods to wash without shrinking.” “Oh, you’s slick-tongued ’nuff! hem’s jes de words yg’ used when I bide dat calico Idee’s dress is made on, an’ now look at it, shrunk up mos’ to her knees, when it nigh teched her heels when I made it.” “Why, really, I don’t remember ever selling you such goods. Bo .you remember when you bought them.” “Lemme see—tink it was ’bout fo’ yea’s ’go.”— Harper’s Bazar. The people of the United States are using annually not far from 10,000,000 barrels of salt, and there has been*, a steady increase of pounds per capita for the last decade.