Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1888 — EXCHANGE SIFTINGS. [ARTICLE]

EXCHANGE SIFTINGS.

Tincture of anarchy—beer. A spring garment—the wire bustle. Business blocks—jams in the street. Apprehensive—the chickens of last spring. Begging the question—a girl in leap year. Orange (New Jersey) blossoms—mosquito bitea. “Trust” means get the best of your fellow-man. The girl who won’t be won usually remains one. Texas Siftings: Bp in arms—the man who makes them. It requires talent to write the last words of great men. “How is the earth divided?” "By earthquakes, ma’am.” To young men: It is better to be fast asleep than fast awake. Yon can kill a stream by damning it, but you can’t kill a cat that way. Now the tront fisherman will begin to reel in his line and reel off his lies. The aBS is not usually described as an eerie creature, bathe is jnst the same.. Hit offen happens dat money won’t make de man ’lees de man makes de money. The man who ruleth his wife’s spirit is a great deal scarcer than he who, taketh a city. A Simple Invention Worth Millions, Kansu City Star. It is wonderful how the discovery of what is-considered a trifling matter wifi bring wealth to the inventor. Take, for illustration, the perforated, substance used for bottoming chain and for other purposes. Its inventor is now a millionaire,and is reaUaing • princely revenue from it yearly. George Yeaton, the inventor I refer to, was a poor Yankee cane-seater in Vermont. He first diatingnislretlhlmselfhyinvenfmg a machine for weaving cane, but he made no money out of it, as some one stole his idea and had the process patented. After a number of yean experimenting Yeaton at last hit upon his invention, which consists of a number of thin layers of boards, of different de--grets of hardness, glned together to give pliability. Yeaton went through a number of bitterly contested lawsuits before he got his invention patented. He was wise in not paying othen to manufacture his devices. He formed a company, and to-day lie has a plant valued at half a million dollars.