Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

*1 have a swap for yon,* said a smiling Southern woman to a Northern acquaintance, and then to the latter’s puzzlea understanding the meaning of the localism was unfolded. To give one a swap is to retail something complimentary received from a third person. The term is *0 used, apparently, because one retailing pre r ty speeches expects a like return; eoa ■wap is really an exohange of compliments obtained at third hand. Another equivalent is a “tell,” and a woman who leams that a (friend has a tell for her expects a compliment— Oew York Sun. A young business man in Akron, o.> has two sißters who are not related in the least by bluod. 1 his strange state came abom luus; His father had one daughter by nis first wife. His first wife died. He married again, and, dying, left one son, the gentleman in question. His mother marned a second time and one a. ugh et wis the result of the union— I Each .>1 tii daughters is, of course, a haU sister 10 the son, although there iR no blood relation between the two. A oarpet tacking party is the latest Missouri invention for evening festivities. Raspberries are still ripe in Tillainooh, Oregon. In that region th y get two crops every year. Sugar made from ooal is 300 times sweeter than ordinary cane sugar, bat it oosts $lO a pound. A watch beatß 157,680,000 timas in a year. In the same length of time the wheels travel 3,5582 miles. ■ ■ A fashion note from aoroad sai s that cameos are very mnoh in vogue and are displacing diamonds as head ornaments. The owl is unable to move the eyeball, which ib immovably fixed in the socket by a strong, clastic, cartilagenous case. Hot ctudies every day, at King's.

Km*** mu m »r.—JsausU J. WILLIAMS, Ag’t. Rensselaer, Ind*