Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Equipped for War. [ARTICLE]

Equipped for War.

During the campaign in, Dahomey the French soldiers found the Dahomeyan women much more redoubtable than the men. and what amazed them most was that the Amazons not onlycarried repeating rifles, but also had, cords around their waists for the purpose of binding any Frenchman who fell into their hands.

“I can’t understand it,” said Mr. Gewgaw at the gas office. “Last month my gas bill was 816, and this month it is 830. I haven’t burned a bit more gas this month than I did last. Now, how in the name of honesty do you account for that?” “You didn’t pay last month’s bill,” said the clerk. —Harper’s Bazar.

Empress Eugenie spends two or three hours daily on her memoirs, which are not to be published until twenty-live years after her death. She will not allow anyone to have a glimpse at the manuscript.

J CSTIFIAKLE homicide sleighing some other yellow's sister.—Germantown Independent.