Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — No Place for His Spectacles. [ARTICLE]

No Place for His Spectacles.

An Irish beggar woman was following a gentleman who had had the misfortune to lose his hose, and kept exclaiming: “Heaven preserve your honor’s eyesight.” The gentleman was at last annoyed at the importunity, and said: “Why do you wish mv eyesight to be preserved? Nothing ails my eyesight, nor is likely to.” “No, your honor,” said the . Irish woman, “but it will be a sad thing if it does, for you will have nothing to rest your spectacles upon.”

The discoveries made by Stanley show that the Nile is the longest river in the world, being at least 4.100 miles in length.