Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — A Cosmopolitan Family. [ARTICLE]

A Cosmopolitan Family.

There Is probably not a civilized roof In South Africa which covers people of only one nationality: as a rule, they are of three or four. We take a typical Cape household before us at the moment; the father Is English, the mothor half Dutch and half French-Huguenot, with a French name, and the eh ldren sharing three nationalities; the governess Is a Scotch woman, the cook a Zulu, the housemaid half Hottentot and half Dutch, the kitchen girl half Dutch and half Slav, the stable boy a Kaffir, and the little girl who waits at taole a Basuto. This household is a type of thousands of qthers to be found everywhere throughout Africa. Itch on human and horses and all animals cured in 30 minntss by Woolford s Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by Long & Egf.r, Druggists. Rensselaer, Ind Knows aMblp at Sight. To a sailor, every vessel Is an Individual. No two vessels, even of the same class, are alike to him. The man who keep* a lookout in the Portiaud Observatory can recognize over 100 different vessels that belong to that port the minute he sees them twenty miles away through his telescope. Be says there aT« not two vessels that ever were alike In shape or rig. “You see the back of a friend on the street some distance away and yon know him by the cut of his jih, ” he aays. This is almost literally true in the case of vessels. An old sailor sees the dllfarence without always being able to axpiate just wher-tn It Uaa.