Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — The Passion Flower. [ARTICLE]

The Passion Flower.

A great ma'ny'lovers of flowers who have not made botanical lore and legend a study often ask themselves or some friend why the “passion flower” is so called, and not one time in a dozen is the correct answer given. It was so named by the first Spanish settlers in the new world because they imagined that they saw in it a representation of our Lord’s passion. The filamentous processes are taken to represent the crown of thorns; the styles, the nails used in fastening the Savior to the cross; the alnthers, the marks of the flve wounds; the leaf, the spear that pierced his side; the tendrils, the cords or whips with which he was scourged; tlm column of the ovary, the upright® the cross; the stamens, the hammers; the calyx, the “glory” or halo; the white tint, purity; the blue tint, heaven. “Calvary clover” is a still more wonderful representation of the crucifixion. In that flower persons of vivid imagination can see in the meanderings of the colors of ‘ the petals the outlines of a cross with the figure of a man stretched prone upon it. Germany’s young war lord is blessed with true Teutonic thrift. He has now taken steps to have the milk produced on his farm at Potsdam sold in Berlin. Carts hearing his name are to be seen in the streets of the capital. The drivers of these vehicles retail milk to anyone who chooses to buy, and as it is of a good quality the sales are quite large. Of course the ultra-loyal members of the aristocracy prefer to patronize the royal milkman anyhow.

Exdder —“Did it ever occur to you ihat in riding a bicycle you might be encouraging a certain form of gambling?” Ministerial Enthusiast-r----“Horrore, no! There’s no gambling about a bicycle, is there?” Kidder —“Ain’t, eh? I’d just like to know If it hasn’t been a wheel of fortune to the makers?*—Buffalo Courier.