Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — The Daisy. [ARTICLE]

The Daisy.

In Scotland the daisy was, and in some parts still is, regarded as a healing plant; and if the sick man can only put his foot on a fully expanded daisy, he has hopes of recovery, just as in some other parts some mountain stream or quiet spring is supposed to possess magical powers. Faith, no doubt, has a good deal to do with the cure, and the thought that touching any given object would effect a cure would do much to accomplish the same. It is further believed that if the farmer kneels down and bites off the first daisy of spring a plentiful crop will be the reward. The more we reflect upon the unspeakable meanness of the mah who stole a fine overcoat belonging to a distinguished New York clergyman while he was preaching to a Chicago congregation the more firmly do we become convinced that the thief was some bitter and unforgiving St. Louisian who committed the act in order to bring reproach upon Chicago. Ths low volcanic island which rose so suddenly out of the sea near Palermo, Italy, and from which fire was emitted, has entirely disappeared, even the water that covers It having ceased to boil.