Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1891 — Fruit of the Shears. [ARTICLE]

Fruit of the Shears.

Men of great capacity sometimes have very little capacity for making a living. —Texas Siftings. Wren you give, give freely. Still, there’s no harm if the jumping-jack you give your boy has a string to it—lndianapolis Journal Maddox—l understand your wife always has the last word. Gazzam—All a mistake, I assure you. She gives it to me.— Harper's Bazar. Ethel —Don’t yon remember, Maud, when I first came out Maud (interrupting)—Yes, dear, I was but a child then. — Bostonian. “What have you been doing for the last year?” asked one seedy-looking man as he stopped another on the street. “Time,” was the laconic reply.—Washington Post. When it is remembered that the Apostle Peter and others were fishermen, it looks a little odd, in the light of modern angling, that they were chosen to preach the truth. —Philadelphia limes. “Is THAT the General’s daughter?" “His daughter? Why, what’s the matter with you? He's too old to have a daughter as young as that.” “Well, then, it must be his wife. ’’—Fliegende Blatter. He —“I’d like to see you women struggling around a bargain counter just once, for the fun of the thing.” She—- “ And I’d like txnsee-yrotr men struggling around a free lunch counter. "—New York Herald. Jagway —l don't see how a man can get along on only two suits a year. Travers—Easy enough. For instance, I begin with my winter suit the Ist of January and wear it until the middle of March. Then I put *cfn my spring suTt and wear it until the Ist of June. Jagway—Then what do you do? Travers— I keep right oa wearing it.— Harper’s Bazar. Benevolent person (to old tramp)— You ought to be ashamed of yourself to bo begging at your age. Tramp (indignantly)—How in thunder can I bee at any other age now, I’d like to know. Gimme a nickel— Washington, Star. “I am perfectly delighted with my dwelling at present. I have a diningroom, a reception-room, a working-room, a sfiioking-room, and a sleeping-room, and just think how convenient—all in one. ” — Fliegende Blatter. A towel folded, dipped in hot prater, wrung out rapidly and applied to the stomach acts like magic in cases of colic.