Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Truth Spoken in Jest. [ARTICLE]

Truth Spoken in Jest.

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild tells an amu. ing story about the late L<vd He tford. He lived in Paris during the last twenty years of his life, ana as he usually went to bed very late, his valet was under the strictest orders not to disturb him in the morning. “You may call me at eight if there is a revolution,” was the command, “not otherwise ” By this his lordship probably meant that he was not to be aroused at all. On the morning of the 24th of February, 1848, however, he was called at eight “What's wrong?” he grumbled; "is there a revolution?” “Yes, my lord, there is,” the valet replied. This was the fact. It was then that Louis Philippe, the Citizen King, tied from Paris and found refuge in England, where he died. The name “Indian” was given to the inhabitants of America by Columbus, from his belief that the country which he had discovered was an extension of India, the country known to occupy the extreme of the Eastern hemisphere. The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.— Theodore Parker. Count Tolstoi maintains that a man cannot be both a Christian and a patriot. Honor to those whose words or deeds thus help us in our daily needs.