Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1879 — SENSE AND NONSENSE. [ARTICLE]

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

ioA vriUra new ghit of clothes trom> Many women are like coins. Worth only their face value.— PhUaddphidwnSMay fitiMmn «S«x(.ta'#f i<J\ nlnn'll „ Ww# vro*>#fiarvjbtfi %«h-v* h«ir,ta “Wjuaftatot 7M to, remark about netretnarkffble.” jin* mU o-iTmwnf age inn-suns that it ta-nofcprfj W',ra& hand.— Whitehall Times. .‘Mifih .?Vtirn*fr ni r&gff*# ter- Kxppcss hays thetrirreleron the road %ils ! fAdy asked her Sunday-SchoOi dbtt 'tah** wnv 1 wwvta : by, Uig yomp of the,world.’/ The answer was lipnest, btft? Vnth^i* : ttnrxiieeffefPr'' Theim flcMu Bmopjyolir b»tr’ia(7 ,nf*nl thi pcare teas marnetl when he ..lyas c*l|h DanUi J tit * w4feiy-t»eef,‘‘ And HfigUaJu Ypyiaft Mrtren he «** eighteen, so oni*iii »jr •»di lo jirei»rt»Jit'vaq«r: i “ W«r,’!iaalM;a« evwneot,. proiesao* mibjoct vdry dtase tho4i£htf Init’we IsOpJ i^^f‘ to 11 9)X¥4. Vft make addresses of welcome and postpmridiM Retsmto gold cpins and Twewing them at their fagffftohtocJwkgff.Tatah <&*- don. Said t ( ‘‘ fc lsn’ t this a clear case of clipped too many, efi?” He was pardoned his first. offense*’ but for his atrocious pun was killed on< the spot.— Boston Transcript. Miss Miller, of Feiris',Tex., chloroformed her father’s dogs and eloped with Ibe young man. whom her father had forbidden the premises. The prob abilities are that about a' year Konce she will conclude that her life would have been less miserable if she had chloroformed the young man and eloped with her father’s (fogs. —Norristoiim Herdld. In the New Testament Revision COmtj mittec it yrga pfibposod to get rid of tho word ‘-‘penny” as giving a wrong idea of the ‘ R6man denarhiS, and’‘to renHi 4 “he gave every man a denary.’’ But to this a witty dean objected tpatj there might be confusion with a deanery, which poor and unlearned persons mnst not suppose ean be got so vasily. 11 i / A jury in the City Court of New York disagreed ope day recently, and when" Judge McCue inquired, “How do you stand, gentlemen?” the foreman replied: “ Your Honor, there are six of us on one side, and four qn the other; onie is on both sides, and one didn’t vote.’?} Judge, juror* and spectators wi*h ;V#ugbtei; t £ut \he foreman was unable to see the joke. Language enables % man to communicate his knowledge of things to other menu Dr. Johnson was > of simple English, and the following is the best short description, he could’giW of lace; V‘ Anything reticulated or decussated at certain 'distances, with interstices ' between (he. 1 intersection.” Any little girl of common intelligence can tell what lace is after that deiiniO. Picayune. General Myer (“Old ProbabHities”) (fays that h.e hope§^soon to lay before the American people every ußnming a report Of'the Aondnibn of tho' weather all over the world. *4> don’t* i General, country has got aJliffifi ; Weafhef it dan stand as it; is. ' WHat' would he the comfort to opon onJ’s pamper in the evpnipg.pr read that there; was a prospect of fair Weather during tfHe day nrNew ZbaJtatnd, or that the day before a! Honday-Seboot picnio in Afghanistan had been interrupted by showers ‘dr rain, or that (lie indications were tha*-therfi would be- ’dlreayy f|o9t|at thh l lioia^ t ‘Poie, .c#- that the man who carried .a stock of base btimei* to 1 tffd 'Wad" licfen (Ak Hk out of businem byia chup de soteHt s Thai mqp Je : jf»t « : wh obliged. General, but really please don’t.” If!you wtmM'diAlytetidehvor toinfirove the varieties olweather wo, have, rather than fly to, others tljat we know not of, it ‘wotud ? be -far bdttdr.— ; AlbmMyiVoumglt i'j ;ii PosuCMAftyEa-GENEiujfc Key, in a r*-; cent conversation about his.summer trip in New England, said: “I haH neYer been in New England until recent .yeany and never spent much time there until thi? - summer. ‘ T confess I had no conception of the natural beauty *r>f the "cdAntly, ’ the wealth of, Abe population, ftftk*»p;asT whole; the extent and pqrfe<U,ion of the machinery (rblcWfrivesrbfer ymAc mdn'tf- i factmdng interested ’ da .factf nibJ the. jp, bgjwa, seems ridiculous when compared, with wbrfd'l saw in Now England." revelation, Tlxese people are ol the same general stock as the rest of us, but they are immensely ahead. They bake made "it themselves. A large majority of the men ,with whom I was thrown in contact—the originators, owffers anfd directors of this raSt-mand* facturing system —are Americans.' They haye begun at the ground and built up, and I cannot see that they had one partfcle of advantage over ahy other tiff oountry to begin with.”