Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — PLEADING TRIFLES. [ARTICLE]

PLEADING TRIFLES.

It is paradoxical and yet true that sickness often larks in well water. The parcel clerk gives the . business wrapped attention. Every man is sometimes a bait c-n some other man’s hook. If we could use our own good advice how happy we would bC” Thfs is a bitter wind remarked the mariner as he ran into the teeth of the gale. The man who registers at a hotel at night can be said to be on the “le irt d list.”

A vigorous foreign policy is one that lives to get out of the State Department.

It is all very well for an engine to'have an eccentric rod, but it should not have an eccentric engineer. The ethics of fogery are hard to reconcile. When a man forges a hand it is a crime; but when he forges ahead it is a credit.

The Irish landlords have their woes, also—for we observe that they are orphan without a pay-rent. The pie parties which are now in vogue at Carroiton will probably be followed by pepsin picnics. The British officer who gave away his Government’s alleged plans regarding Behring Sea had been beering himself.

Sweet Sixteen—No, it would be useless to wait for the new issue of the city diiectory to learn the styles of Directory gowns. Stranger, in the court room—What time have you got, please? Prisoner, at counselors’ table—l can tell you better after the trial. The inconsistency of our War Department is seen in allowing a Colonel Walker to be in the cavalry and Capt. Rider in tne infantry. The London bookseller who has been sentenced to three mo ntha’ imprisonment for selling Zola’s novels says tba he is the victim of a vile plot The principal features of corrupt legislative Assemblies are eyes and noes. These features enable them first to scent jobs and then to wink at them.

A matter of no ordinary interest is the discovery that pulverised coal,which can be had at 50 cents a ton, ia of mnr* value for heat than, natural gas. This refuse ooal has heretofore been held to be of no account, and for a nominal cost has been need in making walks, or in mulching trees, or filling dump holes. It is now claimed that nearly 5,000 pounds of iron can be drawn in one hoar with a charge of 700 pounds of this coal. This is by far the cheapest process ever devised. The fact is, our waste materials are, in many cases, onr most valuable property. To utilise the rejected is the aim of science.