Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Tennyson at 82 is in good health, prosperous and content. The people Of all lands salute the poet and wish he may live many more happy years. You girls who are pretty, and only 16 and 17 years old, remember that a time is coming when you will not be so attractive and popular. There are many things you may do now to help you when you are plainer and older; don’t neglect them. A Chicago woman is heading an association which declares that two garments only are essential to woman’s dress, but the dressmaker will probably go on with her business just the same. Dress reform, somehow, doesn’t seem to reform. If women would learn how to make better tea and coffee, there would be less occasion for them to fight the liquor question. And while they are turning their eyes to domestic reform, bad bread has sent as many men to the penitentiary as gambling. A successful Boston publisher was formerly a druggist. In the present state of the publishing trade it must be an inestimable advantage to know exactly what disinfectant will best destroy the noxious qualities of the latest translation from the French.

A volcano in active operation has been discovered in Washington. This refers to the State of Washington. The volcano in the city of that name will not begin to erupt until December, but when it does get under way It will greatly outdo its Western rival. The observant Boston Herald has found that a person’s character may be read by his elbow. But bless you, that is not half the story. You can even tell a man’s politics by his elbow —that is to say, if he’s out at trie elbow you know very well that his party is not in. He who has respect for the opinions of others is the safest member of society. When a man becomes indifferent to what others think of him, he is in a fair way to lose all self-re spect, and that lost, he is an unsafe man. It becomes every man to strive to meritthe good opinion of society. We are pretty well supplied with Jacks in this country. There are Jack the Ripper and Jack the Peeper fcnd Jack the Kisser, not to mention various and sundry jackasses with more or less leg formation. Now all we need is a Jack the Wood SaWyer to equip us for the coming cold season.

The situation in Europe is really growing serious. The price of schnapps in the German markets went up 8 marks per hectoliter. The German autocracy must beware how It interferes with the necessities of the people. If schnapps goes up much higher something is likely to schnapp.

It’s all very well to promenade the deck of the Atlantic racer and bet she’ll scale dowjpt to the Majestic’s time, but the boys that saw the wood and get no fame out of it are the stokers. It is not always the major general that wins the battle; it’s the grimy, stalwart unknowns that serve the guns.

General Butler not only did not die on his yacht, as was reported, but was not even on board that vessel. Benjamin has not been filling a large place in the public eye lately, but everybody would regret his demise. He is too picturesque a citizen and of too unique individuality to be willingly spared.

The versatile exchange editor has started a paragraph on the rounds to the effect that the last descendent of the Maid of Orleans died recently in Prance. The exchange editor reads history, but he reads it paragraphically and does not worry over an occasional Hibernicism. Besides, the exchange editor, like other mortals, is entitled to some amusement.

A furious drunken Chicago brute chased his wife up-stairs, brandishing a hatchet, hut she escaped him by jumping out of the second-story window. In court he stated that he was a victim of his wife’s violent temper, and his fine was suspended on condition that he would behave himself. The quality of mercy appears to have been badly strained in this case. Never invite a friend to dinner unless you intend to have something very good to eat. He may tell you not to go to any troble in cooking for him, but he does not mean it. People seldom mean the polite things they say. The dinner is what he is coming for. It will be a disappointment to him unless you give him something better than he can get at home. _ The committee of investigation of the Psychical Society has found a young woman in Boston who by means of psychic force can lift a chair with a person in it from the floor to a table without touching it That is one pretty good