Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — SHREDS AND PATCHES. [ARTICLE]

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The well-bred man may be selfish, but never in little things.—Life. Truth is always stranger than fiction, but not as numerous.—Denver Times. We are too lazy to love and to hate, Bo we slide into indifference.—Boston Transcript. Having to work very hard every min ute is as good for man’s soul aa religion.—Atchison Globe. There are few wild beasts more to b< dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.—Fwift. A man usually thinks that the lord of the household is about the only lord there Is.—Denver Times. Words are like* leaves, and where they mo t abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.—Popa Lives of great men all remind us hov Important it is to use good judgment in the select’;;:: of a biographer.—Puck. Tiie tune which our gunners have been playing on Santiago is the march' of civilization.—Philadelphia -Record. Among the friends we fondly admire we have a few whom we don’t like to meet when we are in a hurry.—Emma Carleton. When a man becomes great, his. friends remember many things about him that never happened.—Philadelphia Ledger.