Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

r *SY>r men only”—the woman’s page fn the average Sunday paper. Tito Prince of Wales is 50 years old, hut his dear mamma is 72 years young. If it be true that an odorless whisky has been invehted half the spice will be taken out of man’s life. Mbs. Langtry is having a new play written. Now if she would only have some good actress employed to play her role. A Pennsylvania man after preaching twenty-five years has become principal of a grammar school. Once a parson always a parsin’. The American hog is the modern conquering hero in Europe. Soon, like Alexander, he will weep because he has no other worlds to conquer. Chicago has 180 square miles of territory, more or less, but there is no room anywhere within its limits for the fla'g'of anarchy. This is official.

A Missouri barber was suddenly stricken dead by apoplexy Sunday while playing “Annie Rooney” on a guitar. Papers everywhere please copy. “Of what earthly use is chicory, anyway,” exclaims the Boston Post, in a burst of unseemly passion. Chicory, dear friend, is useful as a rhyme for Terpsichore. Canada has declined to accede to the international copyright treaty. It is safe in doing so, for the pirate is yet to be found mean enough to steal a Canadian book. t “How to Feed a Railway” is the title of a new book on practical sci- I ence. It doesn’t say so, but probably the most common fodder is stock after it has been well watered. St. Louis claims to have a cat that drinks whisky. No creature with less than nine lives can tackle St. Louis whisky with impunity. It is almost as bad as Chicago water. 1 : t xrrJi* • • It is said the Russian peasants are eating straw in their bread. The French peasants were eating grass by the roadside not long before the revolution of 1793. History may repeat Itself. Sir Edwin Arnold expresses himself as much pleased with America. Will some one please mention this fact to Rudyard Kipling? This country is rather pleased with both opinions. A restaurant with Delmonico prices is to be established at the World’s Fair grounds. The proprie tors must expect that the much banqueted commissioners are going to reitain their appetites forever.. t Budyard Kitlino, it seems, is on his way 'from Australia to Ceylon, and so far as he is concerned the American public will not be seen in Its great act of licking the hand that cuffs it until another season. — fr , If it had occurred to Edward Bellamy in writing “Looking Backward” to make the age at which the men 'of his ideal community quit work 25 instead of 45 he could have had twice as many enthusiastic followers as he has. ! George Parsons Lathrop announces that there is in the United States a wide-spread contempt for authorship. In what part of the "Union has he been staying? Let him go to Boston and he may change his mind. The lessees of Wallack’s Theater, In New York, complain that a ghost walks In the cellar at midnight. This is an odd time and place for a ghost to walk, but any actor who has toured it in the provinces will agree that it is better than not walking at all.

A Western girl is papering her -room with love-letters. The dado is composed entirely of proposals for marriage, arranged chronologically. If she would secure copies of her refusals of all these matrimonial offers and place them at the top of the room, they would make a very good frieze. A story of inhumanity comes from Oregon. A convict in the State Prison at Salem, who cut off one of bis hands about two years ago to avoid work, has been obliged to drag a Iteavy piece of iron over a distance of road backward and forward for ten hours a day for a year and a half. The punishment has driven him into Insanity. • Train-robbers went through a passenger train within a few yards of the city limits of St. Louis the other night. Very unfortunate situation that town occupies. To get into it from the east passengers have to submit to being robbed by the bridge company, and to get out of it by the west they have to yield up their wealth to the road agents. THE admirers of “the red flag” and •the stars and bars” may as well take notice that Uncle Sam has no use for Jtfeem is any public demonstration. jfaople who don't think “the starapaagled banner” good enough and Columbia!” and “Yankee the right kind of music had getter move to some other country.