Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — SOME TEXAS SIFTINGS. [ARTICLE]

SOME TEXAS SIFTINGS.

A popular drink —the same._> A coat of paint has no buttons on it. Patience is virtue —in other ple. Presidents without policy are potatoes without salt, Falsehood is a hood that covers many crooked heads. A cyclone is like a waiter. It carries everything before it. What looks like sauce for one man makes a goose for another. ~ In faro the man who coppers the ace inust settle on the spot. Original ideas are the lighthouses on the sea of journalism. Why sfißuld pawnbrokers be reviled? Do they not keep their pledges.- . I notice that an amateur fisherman can tell just as big lies as a professional. . Boarding-house keepers .should never set an old hen at the head of the table. » It is as easy to tell as it is to tell the truth, but it is not half so Innasnme- -- , yfae business in which you know you could make money is generally some other man’s ' Ten men remain honest through fear of man’s law where one does through fear of God’s law. -. “Why comes not my love to me?” screams the poetess. Don’t be gish. This is his other girl’s night. A raw onion chewed slowly aud swallowed without undue haste will destroy the Oder of Ice cream from the breath. An insult from certain sources is a compliment. When an ass kicks at you he does so because he recognizes that you are unlike him. Since his retirement from the Governor’s chair of Kentuoky Knott has been practicing law at Frankfort. He is a man of apparently 65 years, slightly below the medium hight, stout, with white mustache and gray hair.