Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1886 — Not So Mechanical After All. [ARTICLE]

Not So Mechanical After All.

At the “Mikado:” She—How in the world do they manage to do this 150 nights in succession without tiring to death of it? He—Oh, they do it without any thought of it at all. It becomes purely mechanical with them. She (reflectively and after a slight pause)—Do ypu think Xanki-Poo’s hug is merely mechanical ? He was obliged to admit that in one respect, at least, the action was characterized by an eternal freshness.—Hoston Reconi. Pliny mentions the belief that when the cuckoo came to maturity it dfevoured the bird that had reared it, a superstition several times alluded to by Shakspeare. Thus, in “King Lear/” the fool remarks: $ ' _ Tho bod go Sparrow led the cuckoo so long, , That it had its head bit off by its young. Dymond states that for 200 years not a Christian soldier was to be fonnd in the Roman armies; and that only in the third century, when Christianity was more corrupted, they began to be enrolled. ■ S every land and clime, the merits of St. Jacobs OU as the only conqueror of pain, are being acknowledged by the press and people.