Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — In Keeping. [ARTICLE]

In Keeping.

“Harr Professor, how do you like my new tragedy?” “Very much, indeed. Especially the robbers—they are first rate. In fact, they are the very best thieves I ever heard of; even the words they speak are stolen from other books.”—Swabiscker Merkur. In are not allowed to sell miscellaneous articles, on the ground that such sales are likely to divert the clerk's attention from the delicate duty of compounding medicines. There are drug-stores where miscellaneous articles are for sale, but no prescriptions can be pfepared, under severe penalties. Poisonous articles are kept in a room reserved exclusively for them. / Our alarms are much more numerous than our dangers,.and we.suffer much more in apprehension than in reality. - " An Italian astronomer claims to have discovered that Mars is peopled with intelligent beings. He ought to sign the pledge.