Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS. [ARTICLE]

DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS.

Cipher—Something that a man can always get for nothing. Jackpot—A vessel sometimes used for the cooking of “greens.” Ignorance—Sometimes it’s bliss, and sometimes it’s blisters. Ambition—The feeling that you want to do something that you can’t. Clove—A scent sometimes used to disguise the breath of suspicion. Cheat—What the other fellow does when you get me worst of the bargain. Comp: omise—A n agreement by which both 1 /ties get what they don’t want. Egg ’-.'mething that a hen lays simply _ . . use she is unalble to stand it on en-1. Miss —Something that is better than a mile if she is neither too old nor too young.