Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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ODD TITLES OF BOOKS. Specimens of English Literature in OnTime of the Roundhead-. In 1686 a pamphlet was published In London entitled “A Most Delectable bw.et Perfumed Nosegay for God's fcuinls to Smell At.” About the year 10411 there was published a work en titled “A Pair of Bellows to Blow Oil iho Dust Cast upon John Fry,” and another called “The Snuffers of Divine Love.” Cromwell's time was particular ly famous for title pages. The author of a work on charity entitles hisbook “Hooks uu 1 Eyes for Believers’ Breeches. ” Another, who professed a wish to exalt poo ■ human nature, calls liis lal ors “ ifigli-Heeled Shoes for Dwarfs in lloli-ne-s.” And another, “Crumbs of Cbmlovtlor the Chickens of the Covenant.” A Quaker, whose outward man the powers that were thought proper to imprison, published “A Sigh of Sorrow for the 'risoners of Zion, Breathed Out of a Hole in the Wall of an Earthly Vessel r,own Among Men by the Name of Samuel Fish.” About the same time t ore was also published “The Spiritual ,«.ustard-Pot, to Make the S< ul Sneeze with Devotion;" “Salvation’s Vantage Croon ', or a Louping Sand for Heavy Believers.”' Another, “A Shot Aimed at the Devil’s Headquarters Through the Tube of the Cannon of the Covenant.” This is an author who speaks p ain language, which the most illiterate reprobate cannot fall to understand Another, “A Reaping-Hook, Well Tempered, for the Stubborn Ears of th Coming Crop; or. Bisouits Baked in the Even of Charity, Carfully Conserved for the Chickens of the Church, ♦ho Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation.” Of another we have the following copious description of its contents: “Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin; or, The Seven Penitential Psalms of the Princely Prophet David." Whereunto are also added," William Humins’ Handful of Honeysuckles, and Divers GodD and Pithy Ditties Now Newly Augmented. "

Judge Wexem’f Proverbs. The godess of Liberty haintthe faintest idee what sort ov things is done in her name. A man that has got the pull to elect u 1 nited States Senator don’t have to know the difference between a tariff and a t uraip. Sometimes grate statesmen grows on m ! y slender stems. .uoney is mity handy to hav when you want to persuade a man how to vot<r o a politishan that’ll sell out his party k n be bought back agin. There are men in this country that v,ood sling mud at the Amerikiu eagb es he ran for offis. The wind kin blow right thru a poliitibhan’s promise. Most men hav rite good memeries for nanv. s and faces till they git into offls. state and nashanal legislators has been tnode to make laws to order. Mammon has crowded the other members of the ferm out of polliticks.—Free Pres.

j.i9 Was Away Dp In This World. In Tine Island Cemetery at Norwalk, Conn., there is a grave 11 feet long in w hich reßtthe bones of the Widow Mary Tutus, as an Inscription on a rudei i nrved slab of blue stone quaintly tel s The widow died In 1769, being in tin •Voh year of her age. None of her dc sc ndants can be found,- but there is a lra .ition that she was 10 feet high, and Itrge in proportion. It is related tha> nßi 'i upon a time her path was blotkec Ayr a team of oxen, the driver of which t lattibornly refused to let her pass Wi .ercupon she seized the offender by !,<6 neck and hurled him bodily into a neijh.boring creek and then unyoked the cattle and carried them Into the the meeting house and tied them to the pulpit. The discovery of this grave Jia-s aroused puch an Interest that several antiquarians talk of opening the jtra ve to see if anything remains of the giantess. Napoleon and Paradise Lost. Sir Colin Campbell, who had charge of the person of Napoleon Bonaparte while he waa a prisoner in the island o. Alba, made the assertion that the Emperor once said that he was a great aixnirer of Milton’s Paradise Lost, which be bad read to some profit, for tka: the plan of tbs battle of Austerlitz he borrowed from the sixth book of tb»t work, where Satan brings his artillejr to bear upon Michael and hie angelic aost with . uch direful effect The moe of wars'* set forth in the poem shewed to Bonaparte soTtfcely to snored, if ti;«d to actual use, that b dei< ■r mine. I to adopt it and s corede bey on i « s p.o-tscon. Are erenee t/ ,h ® detaii of tat tattle withe to iid ;o •‘■siu.ilat no ctMspleialv with MiiuJe icuogiu.t y fight as fee leave uo doubt ti.e .•«*>• I ■ I 1