Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — The Potato. [ARTICLE]

The Potato.

The potato, so long a staple food, has deve,oped almost innumerable varieties. Forty are easily distinguishable, but there are many others with slight and almost imperceptible differences. There are nineteen varieties of the white potato in America, eighteen in Germany, twenty-six in Great Britain aud thirty-two in Prance. Elder Sister— Come, Stanley, take your powder like a little man. You never hear me making any complaint about such a little thing as that. Stanley (peevishly)—Neither would I if I could daub it on my face. It isswallerin’ it that I object to.—Brooklyn Life. “Are there any more jurymen who have prejudice against you?” inquired the lawyer. “No, sah; the jury am ail right, but X want to challenge the iudge. "—Green Bag.