Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — The Editor’s Christmas. [ARTICLE]

The Editor’s Christmas.

To Farmer Brown our thanks are due (or one big jug ot rye; The Sons of Temperance meet to-night—-(suppose they’ll leave it ary.) To Jones, the well-known jeweler, one cal*"' lar button—tin; : li" (Now,|we’d be happy If we had a, shirt tg (J wear it In.) To Parson Brown—for sixteen tracts—a Bible, fair to see: • (Tt’s very fortunate for us they made salvation free!) One box of collars —celluloid—that do not take to dirt; (But like the collar button, they're no good without the shirt) One stove, with pots and pans—hurrah! and wood—at least a cord; Three turkeys and an appetite! (We’re in It—praise the Lord!) —Atlanta Constitution.

A life prisoner in the Idaho penitentiary has just fallen heir to a fortune, a circumstance that seems to be regarded as mitigation after the fact, something new and interesting in law. Of course the jury that found him guilty of murder had no way of knowing that he would one day be rich and inno:ent.

The bachelor who puts his thumb into the boarding-home Christmas pie is apt tc pull out a collar button. —Judge.

Society is Ihc atmosphere of sou-?; and we necessarily 1 muibe from it something which is o! her irfectious or healthful*— HaU.