Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — Laughable or Logical. [ARTICLE]

Laughable or Logical.

Soda fountains are a fizzical necessity. Members of a boating club should always be true to its scullers. Athletes say it is easier to jump a board fence than a board bill. Character is to intellect what a locomotive is to a train of cars. Time wasted in fault-finding can be better employed seeking profit. Never ask a woman her age, unless you desire to witness her rage. Misery travels on a free pass; happiness always has to pay for a ticket. A vulgar merchant is a gross sir, and a vulgar woman is a gross her, too. Adam was proudly conscious that he never made a mistake in his boyhood. A great financier is a thief who succeeds. A thief is a great financier who fails. It seems odd that a flying debtor should cross the ocean to avoid the bill-owo*. It is an unblushing fact that the rosy cheeks of the modern city belle are dne to art. Wren a man despairs of success, the devil will be on hand with words oi encouragement? Another mastodon has been found in a swamp in New Jersey.’ Applejack has not been abolished yet in that State. An enterprising New Hampshire woman has been drawing fonr pensions as Mrs. Smith, which was not her name at aU. A duelist never selects a seoond without hoping that he may prove to be the man for the hour. Make a minute of this. '