Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — A MODEST MAN. [ARTICLE]

A MODEST MAN.

Employer—Want to marry my daughter, eh? And next, I suppose, you’ll want your salary raised so that you can support her! Employee—Oh, no sir! I shall expect you to support us both.— [Kate Field’s Washington. DIPLOMATIC RETICENCE. The social reformer was paying a visit to the convicts in the penitentiary and asking them various questions. “And what are you doing here, my friend?” he said to a good loking man in the shoe shop. “Makingshoes,” was the reply that discouraged any further inquisition in that direction.—[Detroit Free Press. SHE OPENED HIS EYES. “I’ve been awake all night. I haven’t closed my eyes,” remarked the rich old man who had married a young widow. “Then mamma would get a new silk dress,” said the widow’s little girl by a former marriage. “What do you mean?" asked the venerable stepfather. “I heard her say as soon as you closed your eyes she was going to have a new silk dress and diamonds and things.”—[Texas Siftings. TAKEN AT HER WORD. Cora—Why should you weep and be so angry, Belle, since you refused Harry flatly, of your own accord? Belle—To think that the idiot should take me at my word I Oh, it’s terrible I—[Boston Courier. HE KNEW BETTER. Prisoner (to his lawyer)—Sir, do you really believe all you have been saying about me to-day in your speech for my defence? Lawyer (smilingly)—Why,of course I do! Prisoner—l don’t.