Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — How to Silence Critics. [ARTICLE]

How to Silence Critics.

A poet desirious of the laureateship was bitterly complaining to a friend in a London club of the conspiracy of silence that was waged by critics against his effusions. “How ought I to meet this conspiracy?” he asked. “Join it,” replied the friend.—[London Truth. |

The regulations of the British Post Office require that every unsound tooth shall be taken out of a man's head before he cdm be employed. An unfortunate girl who recently was examined for promotion had fourteen teeth taken out at one sitting by order of the official dentist, who explained that “we can’t have girls laid up with toothache.”