Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — Graceful. [ARTICLE]

Graceful.

The ready and graceful wit of the Abbe de Voisenon once enabled him, in a truly discouraging social difficulty, “to pluck victory from defeat.” His courageous effort to escape from an embarrassing situation certainly deserves success. The Abbe accepted an invitation of the Prince de Conti to dinner, but forgot the date, and at the dinner his chair was vacant. The next day a friend said to him: “Monseigneur was very angry with you yesterday.” The Abbe felt that he had been remiss and attended the Prince’s next reception to offer a humble apology. His highness, as soon as he perceived his discourteous guest, turned his back. But the undaunted Abbe exclaimed: “O Monseigneur, you overwhelm me with gratitude. I had been told that you would nevermore have anything to do with me; but I am happy to see that I have been misinformed.” “How?” asked the Prince. “Your highness has turned your back upon me, and I know that is not your custom before your enemies,”— Youth's Companion. ' New Yobk and Brooklyn both spent less money on new buildings during 1890 than they did during 1»89, while Chicago’s expenditures for new structures were greater than ever. The frontage of the new houses built in Chicago during 1890 is fifty-one miles and the structures cost $60,000,000. The boom of Chicago is chronic and continuous.

In these days when reductions of wages are so frequent, cases where wages are Increased stand out in lonely prominence. One such case-of higher wages has been reported recently in Ohio —but It was not in a protected industry. It was that of the trackmen of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Protection Is not doing much in these days in the way of raising wages. They were sitting quite In dark Where the waning hearth-fire spattered. “Life is but a vital spark,” In an undertone he uttered. “Mebbe,” with a sigh said she— Darker grew the room and darker—- “ Mine ’ud be worth more to me Es It had a vital sparker.” The rolling mill recently organized at Beading, Pa., has been taken into the “Beam and Channel Combination,” usually known as the Steel Beam Trust. This trust is one of the greatest money making trusts now-in operation. It is protected by a duty of $20.16 per ton on structural Iron and steel Adam and Eve had no wealth, few clothes, no diamonds, no education, no ancestry, didn’t edi,t a paper, did not use Haviland china, and ate with their fingers, yet they were one of the first families. Thebe is a rumor that a new weekly paper to be called the Philadelphia Life is to be started. The leading feature will be the publication of epitaphs from that quaint Aid oemetery.