Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — Wasn’t Built on the Presence-of-Mind Plan [ARTICLE]

Wasn’t Built on the Presence-of-Mind Plan

Theifact'that a little fire in the kitchen wasteatingnished before he tore ont of the house did not prevent one of Low- ■ ell’s .excitable email boys from raising the neighborhood with every hideons sound within his : power of utterance. When ithe hubbub was over the minister tooktfcbeiboyito task for losing his head and making-such a'racket. “Y«u should alwavs retain your presence <ef anind,” the -said. “Presence-of \your grandmother,” returned the boy. “Wasn’t the place on fire? What would youihave me do? Put on my best clothes, and black my boots, and walk .ton to your house, sund ring ithe bell, and -wart in the parlor till .your wife came, end then gither to ask yotntec sorter mention near the end o’yernext Sunday's sermon-to a lot of sleep v old duffers that Jactk Bustler’s house was afire? Gueasoot! il ain’t built that tray.” —Lowell MaiL A thokouohSjT reliable gentleman informs a correspondent that he saw neatr Scottsville, Ya. t two small snakes deliberately engaged m swallowing eaek other, a goodly portion of each snake having been taken into the stomach of the otaer. This reminds us of the old farmer who saw a lar&e bullfrog basking in the sun on the bank of his millpond. A large water moccasin commenced to swallow his frogship by taking in his legs. Meanwhile the frog began the same process bv taking in the tail of tie snake. The swallowing process, as the story goes, continued nntil the reptile aed the frog swallowed each other and hath disappeared from view. The sadden, unexpected death of three persons has saved the life es one man. Azero Poller, a West Virginian, was to be tried for an assault on Julia Hester, the penalty of which in that State is death. The only witnesses were the girl herself, her sister, and her mother, and all three of these were killed a few days ago in a railroad disaster on the Chesapeake and Ohio. The case against Polley hag therefore necessarily been dismissed.