Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — This and Tha. [ARTICLE]

This and Tha.

The disappearance of dyspepsia as a national disease proves that Americans have improved in their cocoking. The Washington Advertiser says: “Our climate beats the world.” In some respects it does—say along in August. “What is your salary, Dr. Stiggins?” “My salary,” said the clergyman, slowly, “.s 53,000. But my pay is about $1,200. ” —Life. Brown—Why, how pa’e you look; have you been ill? Dobson—Worse than that; tackled a passion novel last evening.—Biiujhampton Republican. At a recent game of foot-ball at Cornell University six students were laid up. with “broken bones and bid sprains.” There is a heap of fun in foot-ball. A live horse in New York stepped 00 a live wire and was dead before his driver could wink. And yet experts are afraid electricity won t kill suddenly enough to supplant the rope. Mr. Guzzleton (11 p. m.) —I wish you’d give me my dry plothcs, Maria, I’m soaked through. Mrs. G. (with deep meaning)—Ah, yes; your breath shows you’re not as dry as when you started.— Texas Siftings. Sept. 25, 1513, from the mountain top of Panama, Balboa, was the first white man in the new world to look upon the water of the Pacific, little thinking that the sea before him covered one-haif of the earth’s surface. Francisco Pizarro, who afterward conquered Peru, hurrying 10 the n ountain top is said to be the second to ciew the great sea. Francisco Pizarro was assassinated by “Men of Chili,” brother Spaniards, under Juan de Rada, a party belonging to the Almagro faction Almagro had been a partner with Pizarro in the conquest 1