Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — The Thoughtlessness of Youth. [ARTICLE]

The Thoughtlessness of Youth.

“How is your old grandmother coming on?” asked Gilhooly of a friend, whom he had not met in several years. “She died from tho thoughtlessness of youth,” was the reply. “That’s a strange disease. How did her youthfulness affect her. She was 80 years old last time,l saw her.” “0, it was not her thoughtfulness that caused her death. It was the thoughtlessness of a young man who drove his buggy over her as she was crossing the street.” —Texas Siftings.

The Hungarian episcopacy is one of the richest in the world, but the condition of the lower clergy in the kingdom is most miserable. The .Magyar Minister of Worship, Treport, has just addressed a circular to the Archbishops and Bishops calling their attention to this contrast. The Prince Primate and* three Bishops have answered saying that they are considering how to improve the lot Of their poorer brethren.

Rev. George A. Crawford evidently doesn’t hold a dude in very high esteem. He says of the youth whose only ambition in life is to see how high a collar and how sharp-toed a pair of shoes he can wear, and how villainous a looking poodle he can have for his retainer, that if yon thru t your finger into an ocean and withdraw it, the hole thus left will exactly represent the void caused in the world by his demine.'