Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — Exaggeration. [ARTICLE]

Exaggeration.

John Fitzgerald is a hard-headed, matter-of-fact boy who has just entered the high school. If you talk with him you must be careful how you express yourself. The other evening his father was reading aloud a book of travels. The author was describing a Christmas which he spent in Australia. “It was a rather gloomy day,” he wrote. “We had a good dinner and did our best to be merry, but it was hard to feel very jolly. We were ten thousand miles from home, and " “What's that?” interrupted Master John. ° ‘Ten thousand miles from home?’ Impossible? Why, the maximum diameter of the earth is only eight thousand miles.’ Charles Emobt Smith, wio was Minister to Russia, says the czar is “a sedate, sensible, sober-minded, fearless man, firm and resolute in action. ’