Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Verbal “Ducks and Drakes." [ARTICLE]

Verbal “Ducks and Drakes."

■ Some men “make ducks and drakes with shillings,” others with words. An Irishman, who had begun with an old' junk-cart, having by his industry and knowledge Of his business become prosperous, thought he would hang two or three pictures on his parlor walls. “I’m no couniser,” said he to a dealer in pictures, “but I know a good thing when 1 see it." “You mean connoisseur, doubtless,” interrupted the dealer. “Maybe I do, and maybe I don’t,” he replied. Just then a well-know wealthy merchant stopped to look at the engravings displayed in the window. “That man’s a millenary!” exclaimed the junk-dealer- < “Millionaire, you mean!” retorted the picture dealer. “Well! you may call him as you please, but! call him a millenary!” replied the unbashed Irishman. EJMr. Le Fanu, in his stories of Irish life, tells this one: “A neighbor of mine said that a very fine horse he had bought a few days previously had gone lame. ‘What is the matter with him?’ asted a Mr. T. ‘I am greatly afraid he has got the vernacular,’ said he (of, course he meant navicular). “ ‘Dear me!’ said T., ‘l.never heard of any quadruped having that disease except Balaam’s ass’”—Youth’s Companion. While all doctors’ bills are big enough, the man who has to go to a throat specialist is more than ever liable,to get it in the neck.—Buffalo Courier. ’ • Jagson says his neighbor’s daughter, who is learning the piano, cannot be accused of fraudulent prao tice—-it’s all sound.—Elmira Gazette.