Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

' The news that there are bugs in cigarettes is indeed terrifying for the bug. It is not the man who pays the highest price for a pew in church that Is surest of heaven. The apologists for poverty, injustice and the wrongs inflicted upon the people by monopoly are still talking about the big crops. Nonpareil lace is a popular article of feminine neckwear. It is worn by both the bourgeois and their minions. Why it is so named writers say not. Ever.v one says he believes the world will come to an end some day. If it should come to an end during your time, whom would you rather be with? Robert Bonner offers $5,000 to the horse which shall first make a record of 2:05 on a regulation track. It now remains to be seen whether money makes the mare gd. The observer at Lick Observatory has discovered snow on the mountains of the moon. The traditional blood upon that luminary will not be visible until next election day. Tiie giraffe is threatened with extinction, but as long as the collarmakers and the dudes work in harmony naturalists will be able to study the peculiarities of the giraffe’s neck. The dollar which the jury awarded to Donnelly comes about as near to being the *IOO,OOO he sued for as his Bacon cipher does to proving that the English Chancellor wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

Daniel Dougherty, the silvertongued orator, made his first money driving one of his father’s’bus teams. Possibly that is why so many Jehus of to-day are so eloquent while handling the ribbons. Since the advent of Ruth Cleveland, boy babies arc said to have . gone out of fashion. It’s safe to wager that if that young lady could express her sentiments this idea would be forcibly condemned. “Takino a Lion by the Tail” is the title of a story of adventure in one of the papers. That is the way America took the Kipling lion—-by his tale of “The Light that Failed.” No one has found much to grip him by since. Prince Damrong, of Siam, is now In Paris, where he is said to be the god of the concert halls, several actresses wearing diamonds presented by him. He is apparently, from a moral point of view, trying to live up to his name. This rapid adoption of the new Australian system by American States demonstrates that it filled a need, and it is not likely that the new ballot law will be repealed in any State where it has had a fair trial, though many of the laws will doubtless be amended in vulnerable points. Dr. Kocii reports that he has purified his lymph, having eliminated the matter that induced inflammation and led to so many deaths. The lymph under its new form is entitled to the careful attention of experimentalists, but the fad is over, and what is really good in the treatment will have to be discovered by the next s generation.

Unlike the scriptural leopard, Garcia, the Mexican revolutionist, changes his “spots” with a rapidity that makes him little less than omnipresent. In one column of a metropolitan paper he is fighting the forces of President Diaz, and in the next oolumn he is declared to be languishing in a Missouri jail. He is yet to he heaid of as a victim of Jack Ketch, however. There is said to be a girl 10 years old living near Pittsburg who speaks only a language of her own invention, although she reads and writes Xnglish. Here is a portion of her vocabulary: Sota, angry; phatota, fun; tooky, a strong rope; beloh, papa. Now, if beloh should get sota and take a tooky and have some phatota warming the reporter who •pun the yarn, such fictions as this would be fewer. The fact that the survivor of a fatal duel in Georgia has been found guilty of murder and sent to the penitentiary for life is worthy of more than passing mention. The field of honor has long been a source of dishonor in the South, and this sign of an awakening to the fact that murder ia murder whether done vulgarly in a catting affray or “honorably” with •eoonds and surgeons and deliberate purpose is a cheering evidence of the triumph of the “new South” over the old. __ The latest declaration from Edison Is “the mule must go.” Many men have said the same with far more emphasis, but the mule continues to Unger. It is astonishing that the very •imple idea of applying electricity to the mule should have lain dormant until Edison came along to wake it up. There is every reason to believe that a few mild strokes of lightning Judiciously administered would make almost any mule go. A neat and compact apparatus to be adjusted to the mule will be easily invented and, with some arrangement to turn the wtactridty off when it is desirable to