Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Our Odd Corner. [ARTICLE]

Our Odd Corner.

The poet Whittier has three pet dogs A haunted tavern is the home of aa fnnspectre. Salmon, pike and goldfish are the only fish that never sleep. The telephone has been known in India, Joy thousands of years. This year sr farm products outvalued last year's by over ?70U,000,000. The rorfect love-letter is written with a fine disregard for future possibilities. Even a good woman is more humiliated at realising that she loves a fool than that she loves a kDave. Dan Rice, the veteran clown and showman, is about to publish his reco'lections of the one-ring circus. Results are always more impressive when we have not witnessed the processes by which they were attained. Some souls are like coffins; their confines are too cramped and narrow to hold anything but cold and rigid creeds. West Chester, Pa., had in one week two cases of young men who became insane by cigarette smoking, one of whom lied. Visitor (to country editor)—What is the most arduous and trying part of rour profession? Editor—Raising mousy to pay the printers.