Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — FOR LITTLE FOLKS. [ARTICLE]

FOR LITTLE FOLKS.

Growing Dirty. Little 5-year-old Arthur was asked if he knew that a penny would grow If It were planted. “Yes," he replied, promptly, “It would grow dirty." Filling an Order, Newsboy—Say, d’yeh remembei them old papers you had printed set the Washington Centennial? Clerk—Do you mean the sac slmlies of a paper of a hundred years ago? “That’s it. Funny little paper, with queer letters,” “Yes. Well?" “I want one.” “What for?” “A sick lady, at a hotel acrost tin street, wants a newspaper wld no accounts of riots and murders and robberies In It.” Tho Right Balt. “Papa,” said Benny Bloobumper, who knew his father's weakness, “you know all about fishing, don’t you?” “Yes, my son,” replied the elder Bloobumper, graciously. “There is very little about that gentle sport with which I am not familiar.” “You know all about the right sort of bait to use, don’t you?” “Certainly.” “That’s what I was telling Freddie Tangle, and we agreed to leave something about fishing for you tc decide. We bad a discussion about it.” “Well, Benny, I am very glad to see you taking such an interest in fishing, as well as to see such confidence In your father’s judgment. What was the point in which you and Freddy differed?” “I don’t know as we differed exactly. Freddy didn’t seem to quite agree with toe, though.” “State the question, Benny. ” “Well, fish run in schools, sometimes, don’t they, papa?” “Yes.” “That’s what I told Freddy.” “Didn’t he believe it?” “Oh, yes, he believed that al. right.” “Well, I told him that when fish ran in schools the proper bait to use was bookworms. Now ain’t I right, papa!” i Mr. Bloobumper reached for hia I slipper, and Benny disappeared out ■ of doors. . A Lo No>e. One day as Verner was watching Herbert’s dog, which was asleep, it began to sniff the air. Verner cried aut, “Ob, see, his nose is loose.”