Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1877 — Msrs’ Moons. [ARTICLE]

Msrs’ Moons.

When the telegraph announced the discovery by Prof. Hall that our neighboring planet had two satellites, and the dispatch was read the noxt morning at ten thousand American breakfast tables, what think you was the effect upon the hearers ? Some colloquy similar to the following was sure to occur: “ Mars has two moons, hey ? Pass me the milk, Kitty. Strange, isn’t it, that astronomers never saw them before. Another chop, please. I wonder what they’ll discover next ? These corn cakes are excellent. What’s the latest from Europe?” We have become so accustomed to startling discoveries and announcements that we take them as a matter of course. Even truth must appear in flaming colors to make herself seen. The virtues of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets have been tested in ten thousand households, whose inmates will tell you that they consider the discovery and introduction of these remedies of far greater importance to the world than the moons of Mars. Shipman, 111., June 13, 1876. Dr. R. V. Fierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir : Last fall our daughter—aged 18— was fast sinking with consumption. Different physicians had pronounced her case incurable. I obtained one-half dozen bottles of your Golden Medical Discovery. She commenced improving at once, and is now as hardy as a pine knot. Yours respectfully,

REV. ISAAC N. AUGUSTINE.