People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — Expressive Sentences. [ARTICLE]

Expressive Sentences.

We give below a few gems culled from the works of Ponson du Terrail: “Her hand was cold, like that of a serpent.” “The countess was about to reply when a door opened and closed her mouth.” “ ‘Ha! ha!’ he exclaimed in Portuguese.” “The colonel paced backwards and forwards, with his hands behind his back, reading the newspaper.” “At this sight the negro’s face grew dreadfully pale.” “The man was dressed in a velvet jacket, and in pants of the same color.” —Le Figaro —Beethoven was very fond of a kind of meat pudding made in Vienna, closely approximating the modern Wienerwurst. With a plentiful supply of this, a hunk of pumpernickel and a glass of beer, he was perfectly content. —The amount of fatty matter or oil in maize is far greater than in wheat; in the latter, oil composes about one per cent.; in the former, from six to ten. —Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.— Cicero. “If my cmployerdoes not retract what he said to me tins morning, I shall leave his store.” “Why, what did lie say?” “He told me to look for another place.”—Harlem Life. “I’ve been pondering over a very singular thing.” “What is it?” “How putting a ring on a woman’s third finger should place you under that woman’s thumb.”—Life. Hotel Guest—“ Now, are you sure that this bed is quite clean!" Maid—“ Yes, sir. The sheets were only washed this morning. Just feel ’em; they ain't dry yetTit-Blta.