Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1902 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow Into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. Lots of women would be more thought of if they had married less foolishly. A man must be pretty busy or else a very hard smoker if he has to smoke while having his hair cut. Whenever a boy gets to calling trains by their numbers he has railroad fever pretty badly. It never gets over sounding funny to hear his relatives call a preacher by his given name. When a girl comes home from visiting a bigger town, she likes to tell

folks how they do things there. • When emptying ashes, wtiy do they always blow towards you? When the baby has a penny bank, everybody seems to want to pay us in pennies. Anybpdy can get rich if they do not spend anything. Absence of stoves does not prevent loafers. We see them also where stores are heated by furnaces. Every man thinks, his views are reasonable. When we see a young man who ought to be at work, going hunting we know as well what everybody thinks as if they had told us. An old man looks real fpnny wear-

ing one of the new style overcoats that has a seam running across the back. The quickest way to make some people mad is to abuse their family doctor. A man who is not in the habit of it, looks funny smoking a oigar. Woman will go calling and decide to stay a moment and then stay an hour. v Half of our life is consumed in longing to be nearer death.—Lord Lytton. Nobody admits that he is ignorant. A loafer is never content unless he can bother busy men. A very homely girl always has ac-

cidents at a party. Just because girls have parties without inviting the boys is no sign that they do not want the boys.