Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — WHAT THREE HOURS BROUGHT. [ARTICLE]

WHAT THREE HOURS BROUGHT.

How Formality Wore Off Wlille a Young Couple Took in Scenery. An exceedingly polite young gentleman handed a very pretty girl into the Capitol the other day, and while looking for the keeper of the building to have the door leading to the dome unlocked, he was heard to address his companion as “Miss Alice,” says the Atlanta Constitution. For three hours the eouple remained leaning on the parapet and talking of the scenery and other things. As they were finally leaving the building the young man was heard to address the young lady as * ( my own darling precious sweetheart.” It was thought probable that he had not wasted his opportunity. A Chin*man’s Picture. A Chinese journalist has bees giving Ms impression of the western world, and it makes very interesting reading. Here is a description of a 5 o’clock tea: “When the time comes invitations are sent to an equal number of men and women, and after they are all assembled tea and sugar milk, bread and the like are set out as aids to conversation. More particular are their invitations to skip and posture, when the host decides what man is to be the partner of what woman, and what woman of what man. Then with both arms grasping each other they leave the table in pairs, and leap, skip, posture and prance for their natural gratification. A man and a woman previously unknown to one another may take part in it. They call this skipping tanchen (dancing). Tea, wMch is pronounced tee. is always black tea: but it must be mixed with milk and white sugar. They dare not drink it neat, alleging that it would corrode and so injure the drinker.” ! I Ceremonious. i Frenchmen are noted for their punctiliousness, but they have no monopoly of that virtue. A nice sense of propriety occasionally crops out in quite unexpected quarters. | “Pat,” said the superintendent of •M of our New England manufactories, “go down to the firm’s office and wash the windows.” ' Pat presently appeared in the outer room with his bucket and sponges, i “An’ I was tould to wash thewindye in the firm’s office,” he said to one of , the clerks. ; “All right, that’s it right in there,* 1 answered the clerk pointing to the door. j “But they’re in there,” said Pat. 1 “Oh, never mind, go right in." But Pat still hesitated. “Faith,” said he. * -an’ would ye plaze be aftei [foin’lii an’ introduoin’ me?”

The refusal of a Detroit street car company to receive coppers from passengers brought out the fact not gen - erally known that one, two, three and five cent pieces are legal tenders up to twenty five cei.ts. while ten, twenty, twenty-five and fifty cent pieces are legal tenders up to ten dollars. The Indianapolis Journal invites the fanners to Quit grumbling, pay cash and they will get along much better, ihe Journal forgets that paying cash with 15 cent oats and 20 cent com is not the easiest thing in the world to do. The fewer insults the Journal offers the farmers the better forth© Journal. It nc w seems that Deputy Marshal Saunders, who was recently killed in Florida, was engaged in a drunken debauch with some bcon com pan ions, during which a row oc curred and Saunders was shot.