Good old days

8 years ago

Nov. 26, 1886

TOASTING-Kate Field, at a recent banquet given by women, thrilled her hearers by an eloquent speech when proposing the toast, “The men, God bless them.” Kate, evidently is not one of the girls “who wish the men were all transported far beyond the northern Sea.”

HUMBUGERY– One of the most foolish, though harmless, customs of the day is that of grand juries bestowing fulsome praise upon the judge, prosecuting attorney and other officers of the court for simply doing their duty. This practice, so generally in vogue, might lead one to infer that grand juries were compos...