Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1898 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Tne Merchants’ and Traders’ Bank of Brunswick, Ga., failed to open its doors on the morning of December 29th. Jackson, Mich., is the home of the oldest pensioner on the rolls of the Government on account of the war of 1861-5. His name is Cornelius De Veil' ney, and his age is 102. The Indianapolis News. re* publican, thus refers to Gov. Mount’s remarks on the tariff, at the late republican gathering in that city: “It is hard foreven the most conscientious man to avoid ilayingthe demagogue.lon or bright, does Governor Mount suppose the Dingley )ill had anything to do with he increased price of wheat? le is a man of too much inteligence to think that Why should he make the demagogic break, and before an assembly of leaders of the party, not one of whom believed what he said or suppo-ed he believed it? - That sort of thing can only serve to lower men’s estimation of the Governor’s good sense or conscientiousness. If he will talk that-a*way he ought to do it only m the most primitive of the back aees' tricts. Mountain-climbers frequently findbutterflies frozen on the snow, and so brittle that they break unless carefully han died. When thawed the butterflies recover and flyaway Mamma—Ethel, what do you mean by shouting in that disgracetul fashion? See how quiet Willie is! Ethel- Of course he’s quiet; that’s our game. He’s papa coming home late, and I’m you.—London Tit-Bits.

Little Johnny Streeter, who had only seen four short summere, was very naughty one afiernoon, and his mamma whipped him. Johnny was much offended with her for this mode of procedure, and treated her with the strictest silence f° r the remainder {of the day, eating his supp.r without deigning to notice her in any way. When his bedtime she called him in and undressed him for bed, he still maintaining much dignity.— He knelt down, as was his custom, to say his “Now I lay me • to sleep,” and, after askin God to biess his papa, granSa grandma, aunt, and even le servant girl, he turned to His mother and said, with eraph sis: You ain’t in it!”— Chicago Journal. Lately an olive tree was carelessly destroyed near Nice which had a positive record of five centuries, and measured thirty-six feet in circumferrace.