Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1891 — Familiarity Breads Contempt. [ARTICLE]

Familiarity Breads Contempt.

“Why didn’t you return that gentleman’s bow?” asked a wife of her husband, as a gentleman passed them on Fifth avenue. “It never does to be familiar with that fellow, or he will presume on it. Give him an inch ana he will take an ell. If lam at all familiar with him, he will be hinting for me to pay a little bill I have been owing him for the last six months. He is ■ a presuming scoundrel.” —Texan Siftings. Prince Eadziwill, a Berlin dispatch says, wants to compound his enormous gambling debts at 10 cents on the dollar, and is reported to be using his influence with the Britisn Embassy it that city to force the resignation of one of its clerks who refuses to accept the offer. He is exhibiting the most favored nation’s claws.