Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1885 — A Natural Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Natural Mistake.

“Pa,” said a little boy to his father, on their arrival in St. Louis,/*! didn’t know people in this city had wings. ’’ “ Wings ? Certainly not, ” replied th e father. “Then what ( are those things that stick up so higli?” “Hush! my boy,” said the father, in an undertone; “you mustn’t speak so loud. Those are ears.”— Philadelphia Call. ' ■ ■ A rifle ball shot up in the air vertically will have the same velocity when it strikes the earth on its return as when it left the rifle, minus the resistance of the air, which is very great and continuous both ways. You may have youth, beauty, health, spirits, everything, that can gladden the soul and charm the senses, and yet feel like an ordinary human being when you find a hair in the butter. Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself.— Joubert.