Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — SUMMER SQUIBS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMER SQUIBS.

All signs fall in dry time —excep winks. —Burlington Free Press. Green apples and the small boy are getting well acquainted.—Mahoney City Tribune. Gardening has always been considered a healthy employment—for the hired man.—Boston Budget. It is a pity that our neighbors do not know as well as we do what is beet for them.—Boston Courier. What a contradictory world this is, to be sure! The hottest-looking men during this warm weather are the icemen. —Boston Gazette. If it be true that the Spiritualists are for Mr. Blaine it will not do to say that he hasn’t the ghost of a chance.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The •ommencements are fairly over, and now comes the time of camp meetings. There is no rest for the wicked. — Philadelphia Record. The next time an Englishman superciliously declares that this country has no ruins, just call his attention to our peach crop.—Louisville Post. It is estimated that there is one cow to every four persons in this country. The young in the red shawl always gets her share. —Philadelphia call. Darwin said, “Every species of fruit •ontains a living principal.” A man is very likely to discover it if he bites into an apple in the dark.—Binghampton Leader. “Johnny,” said the minister, rather severely, “do ydh chew tobacco?” “Yes, sir,” was the reply, “but I’m clean out justnow. Jimmy Btown’s got some, though.” The Boston Herald bewails the decline of statemanship. But just think of the increase of politicians. We can't have everything, you know. —Minneapolis The Kansas City papers state that their baseball club has reached home. That’s.the first time they’ve got beyond third base for many a day.—Topeka Commonwealth: The Pacific squadron of the United States Navy has been ordered to rendezvous at Honolulu. Great guns! what do the Honolulua want to do with it?— Rochester Post-Express. An American writer on Japanese decorative art says that in decoration the Japs know when to stop. We are glad to hear it. and will they please stop now. —San Francisco Alta. Rich men are frequently hones:; poor men have been known to be rascals; bald headed men are frequently virtuous. This shows how easy it is to be mistaken.—New Orleans Pieayune. It won’t do to show the Southern boom to Chinese critics. A Chinaman who was taken to see a booming California town passed judgment in theremark, “Too muchee by and by.” —Boston T ranscript. A man who can preserve his dignity after his hat has been blown off and crushed under the wheels of a passing vehicle is eligible for membership in the Concord School of Philosophy^—Boston Courier, s . The Labor .party of lo,wa is running Mr. Cain for Governor. Now, here is a chance, to settle an old controversy to the queen’s taste. Let his opponent make him tell him who his mother-in-law was in the Land of Nod. ban Francisco Alta. Civilization brings about many changes. For instance barbaric young clothes and ornaments around their 'necks. Civilized young ladies—well, with them full dress is somewhat different.—Baltimore , -