Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — Miscellaneous. Notes. [ARTICLE]

Miscellaneous. Notes.

Bkown—Are you sure this is good sticking mucillage? Stationer—You bet! Brown—Ever use it? Stationer —No; but a bottle once broke in my pocket. ■‘And, I suppose, like a brave soldier, you followed your colors?” “Yes, whenever there was a battle I noticed the colors were flying; so I flew, too.” Landlady (to new boarder) —What would you do if you found your steak tough? New boarder—l would get my shoemaker to make me a pair of boots from it. Phipps —The shakers never marry, do they? Phlipps—l believe not. Why? Phipps—Nothing much, only ruy girl has given me the shake, and I’ll bet she’ll end up just like the rest of 'em. “Why don't you marry, Mr. Bachelor?” “Well, I’ve been trying for years to find a girl.” “Have you got any money?” “Enough, I guess.” “Then you just hold still awhile, and the girl will find you.” An Austrian prince of the imperial house offers himself to any American girl who has $5,000,000 to put up as a knock-down hid. The royalty market is somewhat slow since the Baroness de Stuers got her divorce in Dakota. French ingenuity has contrived an improved stone cutting saw ot remarkable efficiency—a circular saw having its edge set with black diamonds in the same way as the straight blades, but as the strain on the diamonds is all in one direction, the setting can be made much firmer. The king of the African forest is not the lion or the elephant, but the ant. It is said that whon an army of ants move for food the still forest becomes alive with the trampling of the elephant, the flight of the antelope, of the gazelle, of the leopard, of the snakes, all the living world, to get out of ihp wav of the alldevouring insects.