Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Thebe are 300,000 commercial travelers in the United States. The man who keeps his mouth shut never has to eat any crow. What is done cannot be undone, especially a hard-boiled egg. A doll Ait In your pocket Is worth five invested In a lottery ticket. A fbiend In need is a friend who generally strikes you for quarter. The size of a man has nothing to do with the size of a lie he can tell. When a sick man refuses to send for a doctor that is a sign he still clings to life. Modern society overlooks a soiled reputation much more rapidly than it does soiled gloves. •The telephone is an arrangement by which, two men can lie to each other without becoming confused. The girl who runs away with hired man is hold up in ridicule, but she frequently does better than the one who marries a poet. - Childhood Is the pursery rhyme, youth the love ballad, middle age the prose, and old age the blank verse in man’s book of life. • A cocoon of a well-fed silkworm will often yield a thread 1,000 yards long, and one has been produced which contained 1,205 yards. To presebve the color of black ginghams or sattne gowns, previous to washing dip them In boiling suds or in salt and water. Dry in the shade.