Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10

Rev. Hustvedt will deliver lee.
ture on the prophecies of the Old Tesla.
ment at the first Norwegian Ev. Luth.
church, corner Broadway and Mill ST.,
Sunday at o'clock.
An Iowa man advertised for wife
in these words: II am widower, and
want wife to share my lot, my heart
and hand" Next day a reply came;
"Send age and location of lot; hand
and heart no object"
If you can read this from an ex-
change without getting dizzy you have
pretty level head: A snub that snubs
the snubber is not the kind of snub
the snubbing snubber cares to snub the
snubbing one with who is not snubbed
by the snub with which the snubber
snubs himself. But that's the kind the
snubber used in snubbing.
An exchange wants to know "who
weeps with you when you are sad, and
laughs with you when you are glad,
and swears with you when you are
mad? The editor. Who has to be
both kind and wise and never (hardly
every lies, and when he does creates sur
prise? The editor. Who has a heart
as well as cheek, is possessed of a spirit
proud and meek, and lives on forty
cents week? The editor"
There are women who are comedy
and their are women who are homely,
but be careful how the last word you
say. There are women who are healthy,
there are women who are wealthy,
there are women who always have
their way. There are women who are
truthful, there are women who are
youthful you ever see women
that was old? There are women who
are sainted, there are women who are
painted, there are women who are
worth their weight in gold. There are
women who are slender, there are wo-
men who are tender and women who
are large and fat and red. There are
women who have married, there are
women who have tarried, there are wO-
men who are talkless-but they are
dead.-Er.
-"Ichabod, my boy, methought 1
heard you speak of your sire this morn
ing as the old man. You are Is years
of age, when cahow youth has the first
attack of big head. You imagine at
this moment that you know it all. 1
observe by the cut of your trousers and
the angle of your hat and the flavor
of your breath and the style of
your toothpick shoes and the swagger
of your walk that you are badly gone
on yourself. This is an error of your
youth which your uncle can overlook,
but it pains him sorely to hear you
speak in terms of disrespect of one you
should never mention save by the sa-
cred name of father" He may not
be up to your style in the modern art
Of making a fool ofhimself, but, ten to
one, he fOrgets more i'm a week than
you will ever know. He may not en-
Joy smoking gutter snipes, chopped
fine and enclosed i'm delicate tissue pa
per, but he has borne a good many
hard knocks for your sake and is enti-
tied to all the reverence your shallow
brain can muster.-Er.
"A young man i'm Ottumwa, after
Excepting company" with the girl of
his choice, managed one evening TO
summon up the courage necessary to
pop the momentous question. He was
somewhat disappointed at not receiv-
ing an immediate and glad acceptance
for he had been led to believe from the
young women's actions that his at
tentions were not unwelcome to her.
Instead she replied that she would mott
fy him by mail. After spending week
in suspense he received letter from
her, 5000 words in length. In 1t she
explained her position on the tobacco
question, stated what she had always
advocated as the best kind of baking
powder told him that it was with a
feeling of deep qualification that she
had accepted the honor he had done
her and hoped that she would always
faithfully preserve the traditions of
good housekeeping, etc. He was near
ly dead when he read the postscript
which said: You are so full of politics
/ thought it might please you to be &C
cepted like the candidates accept their
presidential nominations. "-E1.
The following specimens of curious
punctuation are given by the Printers
Register: A man who was suddenly
taken sick "hastened home while every
means for his recovery were resorted to.
In spite of all his efforts, he died in the
triumphs of the Christian religion"
"a man was killed by railroad car
running into Boston, supposed to be
deaf" A man writes: 1--WE have de-