Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1894 — Selfishness. [ARTICLE]

Selfishness.

Western Recorder. What makes selfishness such a deadly sin is that it is such a selfdeceiving sin. A thief knows that he is a thief; a liar that he has told falsehoods; but a selfish man does not know he is selfish, hence he nfever repents of his sin, and it grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength. Zebras broken to harness can now be seen drawing carriages in London, three animals having been sent there from the Transvaal as a proof that they can be domesticated. This may partly solve the question of transportation in Africa, as the zebras are not attacked by the tsetse fly or by sickness. Two adventurous aeronauts, M. Mallet and M. de Fonville, have undertaken to make a sky trip around France, keepinir their balloon as near the earth as possible so as to be able to descend wit? ease occasionally. They want to that agreeable and economical journeys can be made by ballon as well as by rail or water. He liked to see Pen gay and spirited, and brimful of health and life and hope, as a man who has long since left off being amused with a clown and harlequin still gets a pleasure in watching a child at a pantomime. —Thackeray. The States having the greatest percentage of negro population are South Carolina, 59.85 per and Mississippi, 57.58 per cent.