Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1891 — Girls and Boys. [ARTICLE]

Girls and Boys.

Old Friend—“l s’pose girls are a good deal more expensive to rear than boys, ain’t they?” Old Family Man—“ Wall, they is fer a while, but mos’ generally as soon as a girl marries the expense is through with; but just as quick as a son gits married he wants to borrer all you’ve got.” Railway collisions, from the inability to stop the locomotive, are likely to be made impossible when the electric light is substituted for the oil lamps now in use. Recent experiments prove that the electric headlight casts light from half to three-quarters of a mile ahead. A train going at the rate of sixty miles an hour can thus be stopped in time to prevent any accident. The fool is pleased with himself, the wise man dissatisfied. Score one for the fooL