People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Always in Mischief. [ARTICLE]
Always in Mischief.
As every season has its boyish games, so it has also its boyish dangers. Says Mr. Grogan as reported by the Indianapolis Journal: “I see be the papers that the small boys that was gittin’ thimselves drownt last summer is now a-fallin’ out o’ hickory trees an’ breakin’ their necks.” The great English Almanac appeared in 1347, brought out at Trinity college, Cambridge; and the first printed almanac was “Shephcard’s Kalendar,” 1497. The first dictionary was compiled by a Chinaman, Pa-ont-she, who lived about 1100 B. C.
