Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1890 — Thought to Be Sharp. [ARTICLE]

Thought to Be Sharp.

Whenever a woman loves, a man she bates a woman.— Atchison Globe. The ballet-girl doesn’t kick at what she is paid, but for what she is paid.— Boston Courier. “Be flirtuous and you will be happy,” as the young lady remarked to her friend. —Laurence American. There’s a tithe fop everything: Taking off your boots after' you get in bed indicates a high old time..—Binghamton Leader. Mbs. Stagger^—We are to have dear mother for dinner, fames'! Mr. Staggers—All right; see that she is thoroughly cooked,—Pick-. MeMrs. Fangle—Here's an account of an African rac.e of which the adults grow no taller than four feet. Fangle— You might almost call that a pony race. —Drake’s Magazine. Giles —How is it you didn’t send that borrowed money : you premised, when you knew that I was sick? Do Jinks— You see, I heard you Were likely to die. —Munsey’s Weekly. ■ No excuse can be offered for the Baltimore man who lias been arrested for hugging a minister’s wife. Even thei plea that he was merely embracing religion won’t go.—Philadelphia Press. In the restaurant: "Waiter, these eggs are very old and very unpleasant. Call the landlord.” “But I assure you, sir, you will find him very much more unpleasant. ’’—Fllcgende Bbietter. Mrs. Blossom (to her husband, who has come home with a black eye)— That's what you get for riding a bicvcle. Mr. Blossom (mournfully)—No, my dear; it’s what I get for not being able to ride one.— Epoch. Steel is said to corrode much more rapidly in salt water than iron. An English experimenter, Mr. David Phillips, having kept plates of boiler iron and of boiler steel, each five inches square and 4 of an inch thick, immersed in salt water from 1881 to 1888, the steels lost 120 per cent, more than the irons during the first three years, when the plates were in contact; 124 per cent, more in the second three years, when they were insulated; and 126 per cent, more for the whole period of seven years. : White pine boards are now made by reducing small trees and limbs to pulp and pressing in molds.