Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1890 — Cornfield Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Cornfield Philosophy.

The burnt child fears the fire, and so he will try to find some method of playing Avith it without getting burned. I A drunkard can preach a good sermon on the evils of intemperance. He knows whereof he speaks. Kindness is the grease that makes the world run smoothly. The faster a man runs the farther he will go ,in a certain time and the sooner he Avill be tired. The poison you put out for your neighbor’s dog Avill kill your oavu canine if he eats it. A sheep cannot climb a fence as readily as a goat can, and he is not so self-conceited, but he produces more wool. A big head is no more a sign that its possessor has lots of brains than a large smokehouse indicates that its owner has plenty of meat. Both may be empty. Small quantities of nickel are obtained from various localities in the United States and other countries, but the world’s chief supply is stated to have come thus far from the mines of a French company in Noav Caledonia, Avhose output has been about 1,000 tons yearly. At the copper mines near Sudbury, Ont., however, nickel has now been found in such quantity that Dr. Peters haß offered to produce 2,000 tons of the metal annually. Late discoveries of nickel ore have also been made in .she Ural. The increase in the supply Of this metal is expected to bring into extensive use the valuable alloys of nickel with steel and with copper. In round numbers 10,000 missionaries are sent out by the various Christian nations to preach the gospel to 1,000,000,000 heathen—one missionary to every 100,000 of the heathen. Physiologists say that the older a man grows the smaller his brain jbecomes. This explaifis Avhy the old man knows nothing and the young one everything.