Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

j Rev. Mr. Jeffries, Apple Creek, | Ohio, will occupy the Presbyterian i pulpitnext Sabbath evening. You are invited. “Louise, two-thirds of every healthy kfant’s life sho’d be spent in sleep.” “Well, don’t tell me about it; go talk to baby.” The Chicago Herald tells of the meanest man on earth. Twice a week he hypnotizes his wife and she runs the law'a mower over the front yard while believing she is is taking a bicycle spin. “Wasn’t it a surprise when young Rocksworth married the eldest of those Berry girls?” “O, I d-n’t know. He had his pick of them, and I suppose bethought he ought to take the ripest Berry” In the United State* 9,000,000 farm hands raise half as much grain as 66,000,000 in Europe.— Thus the use of proper machinery makes one farm laborer in the United States worth seven in Europe. Prosecutions are expected to be gin soon under the new Massachusetts law which forbids the wearing of the body or feathers of any undomesticated bird. Every offender will be fined $lO and rheprosecuting witness will be paid a reward of $5.

The beet snai e stiry comes from California. A hunter saved the ife of a rattler that evinced the iveliest And most musical gratitude finally taking up its abode in his cabin. One nigbt he heard a great commotion on the ground floor. He ran down and found the rattlesnake holding a burglar in its coils with its tail out of the window rattling for a policeman. An Atchison (Kas.) woman te» moaned the fact that she had no flowers to decorate the table for a dinner- party, Her servant girl didn’t say anything, but when the guests arrived and were taken out to dinner the hostess found the table burdened with geranium blossoms. She discovered after the guests had gone that the servant stole them from the lawn of a neighbor, and that neighbor was among the guests invited. A printer doesn’t rush to th« doctor when ho is out of “sorts.” Nor to the baker when he is out of “pi.” Nor to hell when he wants the “devil.” Nor to the Bible when he wants a good “rule” Nor to tne gunshop when he wants a “shooting-stick.” Nor to a cabinetshop when he wants “furniture.” Nor to a bank when he wants “quoins.” Nor to a girl when he wants a “press.” Nor to a lawyer when he has a “dirty case.” Nor to a butcher when he wants “phat.”| Nor to a pump when he's dry—and has ten cents in his pocket. Why the Sky Is Blue.—Did it ever strike you to inquire why the cloudless depths of sky above us are so delicately blue? It isn’t that the gas we call air is in itself blue.

As tar as we know, it is quite transparent and absolutely color-, less. No; the blue comes from reflected light. Air is never puie. Dure, couldn’t live in it if it was. Countless millions of tiny particles, chiefly of water, are al* ways suspended in it, and these arrest the free passage of light. Each particle has a double reflec* tion - one internal, rhe other external—and so the reflected rays suffer the usual result of what is called “interference” and show color.— You will notice that the sky ap pears much bluer if you look straight up than if you look across to s ard the horzon. The reason Is that, in the first instance, you are naturally looking through a much thinner|| layer of air than in the second.

If there were no air and conse quently no watery vapor and no thing to interfere with the free passage of light, even at midday the sky above syould look perfectly bl..ck and all the s ars pla’uer tha n at present they do at midnight.— Answers. B. Y. P;U. Excuksion To Chattanooga. Less than Half Rates All lines leading to | Louisv lie, in connection with the South rn Railway will sell exclusion tickets to Chattanooga and re ; turn at less than one fare for t' e ■ 1 round trip. Tickets will be told ■ July 13-15 tn, good returning until I July 21st inclusive. Tickets can be extended to August 15th by ■ depositing with Joint Agent at i Chattanooga prior to July 19th. — i The Southern Railway is the only through car line .Louisville to Chatta oopa. For schedule of trains and further information, apply to nearest ticket agent, or address Wm. H. Tavloe, Ass’t Gen’l Paes. Agent, Louisville, Ky.