Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — The Threat Was Worse than the Deed. [ARTICLE]

The Threat Was Worse than the Deed.

I was greatly edified in reading a paragraph in a-Scottish newspaper about a serious poaching affray which had taken place in Aberdeenshire. One of the poachers happened to be arrested, and, having been duly punished for killing game, he was fined by the sheriff £1 for having threatened to “break the keeper’s face.” The victim paid the fine and then straightway went and carried out most e tfectually his threat, and “bfoke the keeper’s face. ” Brought before one of the great unpaid, he was fined 7 shillings 6 pence for doing that for which he had been fined £1 for threatening to do.—London Truth. From Philipsburg, Pa., Mr. S. M. Cross writes, briefly and pointedly, thus: “Your St. Jacobs Oil has cured me of neuralgia of the face and head.” Price Fifty cents. Charles Reade in his memoirs says of Ellen Terry: “Ellen Terry is an enigma. Her eyes are pale, her nose rather long, her mouth nothing particular. complexion a delicate brick-dust, her hair rather like tow. Yet, somehow, she is beautiful. Her expression kills any pretty face you see beside her. Her figure is lean and bony, her hand masculine in size and form. Yet she is a pattern of fawnlike grace. Whether in movement or repose, grace pervades the hussy. In character impulsive, intelligent, weak, hysterical—:n short, all that is abominable and charming in woman.” The Teuton or Germanic race does not begin to affect history until the coming of the events attendant on the downfall of Home. The Celts figure much earlier, those of Cisalpine Gaul had received the Roman franchise at the hands of Julius Cmsar, and Boman citizenship was also made to embrace the people of Transalpine Gaul, Spain, and the British Islands. The term Huguenots, applied to French followers of Calvin, means persons associated by oath. Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets” cleanse and purify the blood and relieve the digestive organs. The tail of a fox is called a brush, but that does not make a Tabbit’s tail a hair brush. i