Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — Frivolities. [ARTICLE]

Frivolities.

Epoch: “However did you come to send Miss Timidde into convulsions last night?” Jack—“ Why, she said something about never having allowed a man to kiss her, and I thoughtlessly yelled ‘Rats.’ ” Lowell Citizen: First young chr.rchwoinan—What are you, goiny to deny yourself during Lent? Second young churchwoman—l wanted a new prayer book dreadfully, but lam going In do without it and put the money into rny Easter bonnet instead. DerFlolf: Lady—How much did you get at your last place at Counselor B.’s? Cook—Ten florins. Lady—That is not too much; I think it will suit me. Cook —Yes, but the reason why I had so small wages was that the missus used to give me piano lessons. So if you're agreeable, mum Harper's Bazar: A mathematical demonstration: Danvers: “Come, Markham, you surely are not going to propose to that absurd Miss Leavenworth, are you?” Markham: “Why, man, she has a dozen splendid farms out in Kansas.” Danvers: “Yes; and she’s at least. 42.” Markham. “Oh, you miss it by about fifteen summers, my boy.” Danvers: “You are being deceived, old man—wofully. I heard her describing the 14-year locusts, and she said nobody could tell her anything about them because she had seen them three times.”