Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1897 — PHILADELPHIA POINTS. [ARTICLE]

PHILADELPHIA POINTS.

Jerry Simpson takes no Interns! It tile recent Invention by a Chicago woman of a machine for darning stockings —Telegraph. The Supreme Court has decided that witnesses must testify, but It has not announced the way to make them talk —Public Ledger. Poet Laureate Austin may also have taken that plunge Into the Tweed foi Inspiration, In which event some more watery verse will undoubtedly eveutu ite.—Call. Half a century ago glass was un known to the tables of royalty, and hall a century hence it won’t be known anywhere else, If the glass trust shai 1 have It* way.—Record. LI Hung Is again out of favor and any moment may see his wardrobe unseitled. What’s the matter with giving the old statesman a bureau of some kind and be done with It?—Times. Prince Louis of Savoy says Boston Is the finest American city. That’s a!! right. He had to say something win a they asked him what he thought of th •. town, and that was the thing tb.;-. came Into his mind.—Press. While people who write and converge In English use many French words, the French have dealt sparingly in English words. M. Jules Lemaitre, however.; now comes forward and suggests the word “snoblsm” as one that mlsrlrt be added to the French vocabulary. There Is so much snoblsm In countries where English Is spoken that It could be o .si l y loaned to the French without lessening ♦ho »nrply .--inquirer.