Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — Short and Spicy. [ARTICLE]

Short and Spicy.

Uncle Sam prefers peace, and, what is more, he will have it —even if he has to fight for it. It is one of the blessed privileges ol old age to give in first in a quarrel. When youth will not give in, old age should. A verdict of $1,000,000 has been affirmed by a Montana court against the “Last Chance Mining Company.” Prophetic name! A farmer at Marengo, 111., is chagrined over the loss of $1,700 that was burned in a bedtick. Banking in a tick is ticklish. Col. Bob Lngersoll finds himself still unable to overcome the conviction that he’ could make a better world than the Almighty has done. The fact that a judge recently fell dead while charging a jury has not had any appreciable influence upon the way lawyers charge their clients. There are a great many men in the world who keep the fires up at the church while their wives are carrying in the wood at home. A book called “Indian Idyls” is just out. If it treats of the wooden images in front of cigar stores there is a mistake in the spelling. Patti declares that this is not her farewell tour. This statement will make many people fear that this time she doesn’t intend to come back.