Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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ODD TITLES OF BOOKS.

Specimens of KngUnh Literature In the Tima of tbe Koundhead-. In 1686 a pamphlet was published in London entitled "A Most Delectable Sw et Perfumed Nosegay for Cod' feaints to Smell At.” About the year 164, t there was published a work en titled “A Pair of Bellows to Blow O: the ihist Cast upon John Fry.” and another called “The Snuffers of Divine Love.” Cromwell’s time was particular )y famous for title pages. The author oi a work on charity entitles hisbook “Hooks an; Eyes for Believers’ Breeches. Another, who professed a wish to exalt poo human nature, i alls his la : or-“liigh-Heeled Shoes for Dwarfs in lloli-ne.-rs.” And another, “Crumbs of Comfort for the Chickens of the Covenant.” A Quaker, whose outward man the powers that were thought proper to imprison, published “A Sigh of Sorrow for tin -k’risoners of Zion, Breathed Out of a Hole in the Wall of an Earthly Vessel K own Among Men by the Name o: Samuel Fish.” About the same tim . t*>exe was also published “The Spiritua Mustard-Pot, to Make the 8< ul Snec. e with Devotion;“ "Salvation’s Vantage Oronn 1, or a Louping Sand for Heav Believers." Another, “A Shot Aimeu at the Devil’s Headquarters Throug the Tube of the Cannon of the Cove nant. ” This is an author who speak tplain language, wh-ch the most illiterate reprobate cannot fall to understan Another, “A Reaping-Hook, Well Tern jiered, for the Stubborn • Ears of Ih Coming Crop; or. Biscuits Baked in tin TTven of Charity,' Carfully Conserves for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation.” Of another we have the following copious de.scription of its contents: “Seven Sobiof a Sorrowful Soul for Sin; or, The Seven Penitential Psalms of tl.r Princely Prophet David." Whereunti are also added,“William Humins’ Han iful of Honeysuckles, and Divers Godl and Pithy .Ditties Now Newly Augmented."

Judge Waxem's Proverbs. The godess of Liberty haintthe faint e«t idee what sort ov things is done >n her name. A man that has got the pull to elect a 1-nlted States Senator don’t have t< know the difference between a tariff an a urnip. Sometimes grate statesmen grows on mity slender stems. -Money is mity handy to hav when yon want to persuade a man how to votrie. \ politishan that’ll sell out his party k u be bought back agin. Tharo are men in this country tlm wood sling mud'at the Amerikin ea_l es he ran for offis. The wind kin blow right thru a polii tinhan’s promise. Most men hav rite good memories i>: nam s and faces till they git inio offis. .-title and nashanal legislaters lit. teen -node to make laws to order. .■uitriraon has crowded the other members of the ferm out of pollitieks.—l re* Ties.

•.e Was Away Up In This Worlil. In 1 ine Island Cemetery at Norwalk Conn., there is a grave 1L feet lout? m •" men rest the bones of the Widow Mary T tus, as sin inscription on a rude ■ lived s’ab of blue stone quaintly tel s--Ihe widow died in 1769, being in tl, > ill year of her age. None of her . • »c udants can be found, bu‘ there is i tia ition that she was 10 feet hgh, am. ).r e in proportion. It is related tba tiii -e upon a time her path was blo. ke., i aieam of oxen, the driver of which 6i.uuiH.rnly refused to let her pass hereupon she seized the offender by 1 s nov k and hurled him bodily into n-ighboring creek and then un oke the cattle and carried them into the the meeting house and tied them to itvpulpit. ' The discovery of this grave has aroused suoh an interest that s v r a| antiquarians talk of opening th> (Rave to see if anything remains of th % nuu ess. Napoleon and Paradise Lost. Sir Colin Campbell, who had charge of the '■person of Napoleon Bonaparte whi e he ’♦toe a prisoner in the island o mha mad# the assertion that the Emperor ones Mul that he was a great a mlrerof HjltPOS Paradise Loet, which be had read id some profit, for that the plan of the fea&ie of Austerlltz he borrowed from the sixth book of that won. where Satan brings his artillery to bear uDon Michael and hl6 angelic host w.tk such direful effect The mode of warlure set forth In the poem appeared to Bonaparte se likely to succeed, if applied to&etual use, that he determined to adopt it and succeeded beyond expectation. A refer* pee to the details oi that battle will he so itid to assimilate so completely with Milton’s imagine light SMI to leave no doubt of the <.ss i