Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — Plenty of Time. [ARTICLE]

Plenty of Time.

Years ago Joaquin Miller, journeying on foot, was overtaken by a countryman, who took him on his wagon and gave him a long ride. Tited, at length, of conversation, the poet took a novel from his pocket and pored over it long and silently. “What are you reading ” said the countryman. “A novel of Bret Harte’s,” said Mr. Miller, “Well, now, I don’t see how an immortal being wants to be wasting his time with such stuff.” “Are you quite sure,” said the poet, “that lam an immortal being?’ “Of course you are.” “If that be the case,” responded Miller, “I don’t see why I should be so very economical of my time.” A Boothbay (Me.) fisherman, Ab Ak, says he has the shortest name on record. There is said to be no abbreviation about it. either. The Pope Dikes Sweetmeats. His holiness the pope, as is well known, is extremely abstemious, and to this, in great measure, is due his rapid recovery from an illness which could not be anything but perilous to an old man of 89. Like the rest o* ns. hqwever, the holy father has his little weakness. It is a very harmless one, namely, a love -fpr sweetmeats. The pope, by no means like a child in mental power, in spite of his years, resembles one in his love for “sweeties.” I This is, of course, well wnown to Italians, rich and poor, and at the time i of the pope’s jubilee a motherly peasI ant woman gave expression to her af- | section for him by a present of an enormous pile of sweets, wrapped in a I large colored cotton pocket handkerchief. It is said that none of the pope’s presents pleased him more than this.