Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1890 — A Professional Opinion. [ARTICLE]

A Professional Opinion.

Professor Dana, of Yale, frequently gives illustrations of wit in the recita-tion-room. Il l's customary for the students to bring with them from time to time such bits of stone as they have chanced across, and to submit them to him lor examination and explanation. “This is a piesh of shyenite, and that a very fine spcshimcn" of mica shist,” he would customarily explain, with an acl cent peculiarly his own. “And what is this, Professor?” quesI tioned an eager youth one day. as he | placed before him a small red specimen that was strikingly suggestive of a bit of brick. The Professor held it up to the light and scrutinized it with the closest attention. Then his brow contracted, and ho said slowly and ponderously: “This, sir, is a piesh of impudence.”— New York Herald. The greatest distance recorded at which the sound of cannon has been heard was on the 4th of December, 1932, when the cannon of Andwerp were heard in the Ej;«jgebirge Mountain at a distance of 370 miles'. An odd-looking pitcher has the appear-* anco of a heap of oysters and scallop shells with pieces of seaweed clinging to them.