Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1891 — Men that Women Abhor. [ARTICLE]

Men that Women Abhor.

New York Ledger. The chivalric gentleman never boasts of his popularity with the ladies, but the coxcomb has the ineffable meanness to brag of favors, that he never has received, and that he is an object ol admiration in quarters where he is regarded as a nuisance. Now and then one of these pretenders gets a horsewhipping from the indignant brother or husband of some lady whose taste as well as character he has libeled, but many of the tribe—more's the pity —go uerwhipt of justice. We recently heard of one oi the genus who is in the habit of procuring the cartes de visite of ladiei at photographic establishments for the purpose of exhibiting them to his male acquaintances as portraits sent to him by the fascinated originals These are some vilenesses which can only be reached and adequately punished by the right arm of a privatl avenger, and this is, we think, onl of them. Only fools of the lowest caliber seek popularity in this way All women, without exception, abhoi such men.

Even Corn Haska Are Valuable. St Louis Globe. . The fates are combining to make things pleasanter for the western farmer, the latest discovery of value to him being that the husks of corn will make excellent paper. Hitherto husks havenot had any commercial value and have only been eaten by stock under protest and during hard spells. Now, however, the establishment of paper mills in the Westshould put a stop to the constant shipping of paper from the East, and also convert a waste article into what manufacturers would call a “residuary profit,” such as coke in a gas flctoy. It is not many years since old rags were looked upon a; the only possible raw material f.l’ the manufactqre of paper, arid the course from cast-off shoddy to ~th< covering of corncobs has been both steady a#d interesting.