Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

j Monet talks, and it talks cents, too. ! In the modern comic opera the Jokes are not funny, but the music is. What has become of the old-fash-ioned boy who called his sister “Sis?” Feab of what people will say has a more religious effect on the world tfian"fear of what the Lord will think. New-Yorkers are planning “a hoarding-house twist.” It will fill, a long-felt want of a lot of fellows who never could get “a trust” in that line. Frank Leslie Wilde will probably be the way she will sign her name now. It would make the original Frank Leslie wild if he were alive to see it. There are 000.000 more women than men in England. Perhaps it was to this fact that Matthew Arnold referred when he spoke of the “saving remnant.” The man who stepped on a banana peel will not give immediate credence to the statement that an acre of bananas will support more people than thirty acres of wheat.

Yale seniors are going tq wear caps and gowns hereafter. Having adopted the flowing garb of femininity, they only need the girls now to make the situation complete. “Two counter-irritants, ” according to Life, are “a mustard plaster and a woman shopping.” Yes? Well, what's the matter with the third and worst of all—a saucy salesgirl? Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. Accident risks for women can be profitably taken out at a much lower rate than upon men. Statistics show that there are eight sudden deaths among men for every one among" women.

The spectacle of the underwriters discussing “The Model Policy” and saying never a word about 4-11-44 is what makes the Afro-American throw down his newspaper with a sniff. Mr. Frank Leslie is said to be 39 years old. Mrs. Leslie herself is crowding 50 very hard. She acknowledges forty summers, but her memory is faulty and she has forgotten quite a portion of her existence. They are telling such terrible stories about famine in Europe that pretty soon the tender-hearted Americans will be giving away their grain by the ship-load instead of selling it for $2 a bushel, as they intended. } Every word spoken in the Boston Common Council goes down in the record, so it is not considered quite proper for ladies to enter the hall until after the clerk has finished reading the minutes of the preceding meeting. -f According to a contemporary •nothing is sold in Baltimore on Sunday except ice, bread and milk.” Surely it is not so bad as that, for they can not have tflb inhumanity to refuse to sell a railroad ticket to some other town. The men who are opposed to women wearing dresses that only reach to their shoe-tops should form a crusade against the men who spit tobacco juice in public places. The public balls, street cars, and most of the churches will have little pools on the floor that ruin a woman's dress skirt. Don’t get angry at trifles. Look at vexations now as you will view them thirty days from date. The angry man who gets the wrong key and pushes and rattles the door till he breaks the lock, loses more time than if he had quietly gone for the right key, and pays for a new lock besides. A man who has been farming in Dakota for four years has suddenly come into possession of an English estate and the title of Earl. There is many an ancient and noble English estate for the management of which four years’ experience in wrestling with an arid Dakota farm would be the finest sort of schooling. Much to the alarm of his »imirers Tennyson has written a comedy. When a man has become famous by doing what he can do well, he rarely escapes from the delusion that he could have done a great deal better by doing something else. Only some such delusion could ever have set Tennyson to writing comedy. Boston Nihilists are to send an embassy to Russia. The Czar should not be worried about this, for we violate no confidence in saying that it is to introduce the great Boston diet of beans to the down-trodden peasantry. Boston culture and Russian culture long ago came together on the bean question, and now the Nihilists have taken it up. The shooting of girls by rejected suitors is getting to be outrageously common, and there should be prompt and vigorous measures taken in every CMS which is brought to Justice. In ■mm* where the murder is followed by tnkidt, ft would shock the public to