Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1898 — Sand for the Speaker. [ARTICLE]

Sand for the Speaker.

■ Before the House assembles each day there is placed on the Speaker’s desk a box-shaped tray of solid silver. Promptly after the House adjourns it is taken back again to the Speaker’s room. It contains three small bottles, one for red ink, one for black ink, and one for sand, such as was used in early days for drying ink, before the time of ting paper. The ink tray is part of the furniture of the Speaker’s room, and has more than ordinary interest, for it was used by Henry Clay when he occupied the Speaker’s chair.—Washington Post. When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longef, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.—Harriet Beecher Stowe. The British postoffice makes £4,000 a year by unclaimed money orders.