Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — For the Minister. [ARTICLE]

For the Minister.

The Woman’s Journal has heard ol a little girl who has learned to adapt herself to circumstances. She wrote a composition entitled, “The Cow.” It had two great merits: brevity and truth. It ran thus: “The cow is a very useful animal.” That afternoon the minister called at the house, and the little girl’s mother asked her to read her composition to him. She read it with emendations and improvements: “The cow is the most useful animal except religion.” The California Fruit Grower reports the arrival *f specimens of a new beetle from Hawaii. It feeds indiscriminately cc the leaves of the peach, orange, and grape, and, in tact, on all kinds of fruit trees. It is as yet unknown in California. It is to be hoped that the specimen was promptly destroyed as soon as identified. The worst insect depredators have been disseminated by sending specimens as a scientific curiosity, and then letting some of them escape. The beetle came originally from Japan and is known in Hawaii as the Japanese bug or leaf-eater. Extract from a new novel: “Stand where you are, Reginald de Courcy! Advance one step nearer and I will tell you what I saw at the World’s Fairl” “Foiled again!” hissed the villain, as he faded from view.— Philadelphia Record. The average waist of woman, a woman’s journal asserts, has increased from 19 inches to 24 ipches within five years. It looks elusive, but there are men who will endeavor to get ’round it—Philadelphia Ledger.