Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1879 — ODD HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

ODD HAPPENINGS.

A Herkimer county (N. Y.) man, who has lost several thousand dollars by indorsing the paper of friends, recently went before a magistrate and solemnly swore that in future he would indorse no paper denoting a pecuniary value. He carries a copy of the affidavit with him, and, when approached on the subject of indorsing, he wihps it out and is free. A man bought some of the $lO Government certificates at the Cincinnati office, and missed one after retiring from the window. He could find it nowhere. “ Give me a dollar and I’ll get it for you,” said a boy. The offer was accepted. The boy yanked another urchin out of the line, and choked him until he opened his mouth, from which the hidden certificate dropped out. Charles Schumeck has been for several years a grain speculator at Tell City, Ind. At first his ventures were unfortunate, but some months ago his luck changed and his investments realized a big bonanza for him. His good luck, however, preyed upon his mind. He went to Louisville last week and began to buy everything he saw, from SI,OOO-horses to baby carriages. His brother caught up with him, and he has been sent to the Indianapolis Insane Asylum. A jeweler in South Royalston, Vt., spied on the finger of a highly-esteemed young lady, who was shopping' in his store, a ring that bad been stolen from his stock. She told him, in response to his inquiries, that it had been given to her by a boyish suitor. This led to the discovery of a society of thieves, sons of respectable parents. The boys had secret signs, passwords and oaths, after the manner of a body they had read about in a dime novel, and had committed several burglaries. Two oddities recently died at Que bee. One was a man' who went to bed forty years ago because of a disappointment in love, and did not leave it until he was carried to his grave. The other resolutely refused to speak to a living soul for even a longer period, invariably expressing his opinion by means of writing on a slate or table that he kept conveniently near. Like the other, he owed his idiosyncrasy to bad treatment from the female sex, and both led peaceful, if uneventful, lives after adopting these peculiar means of revenue. According to the Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise, a freight train was stopped between Reno and Wadsworth the other day by an army of crickets, which covered the track for three or four miles. When the engine struck them it slid along a few feet and stopped, the dead bodies of the insects having the same effect upon the track as though it had been greased. These crickets are jet black, two inches in length, and fat. They do no harm to the crops. It is the opinion of the railroad men that the crickets took to the track because the rails kept their heat long after sundown, when the ground elsewhere was cold. Between Leesbury and Sumterville, Fla, is a rich' strip of hummock land, about four miles long and a half a mile wide. In this strip is a large basin which suddenly went dry a few days ago, leaving myriads of fish in the bottom. Many loads of fish were hauled away, but the remainder being exposed to the sun there arose a stench that was offensive for miles around. It is supposed, by the Leesbury Advance, that a subterranean river flows under the strip of hummock, and that the lack of rain caused the basin to lose its contents. A company of mourners who had assembled at a house in Little Valley, N. Y., to attend the funeral of a child, were summarily dismissed by lightning. The electric fluid passed down the chimney and cut the stovepipe in two. One streak of lightning struck Mrs. J. B. Munger, tearing off both shoes, burning a hole in the heel of one stocking, blistering a place oh the foot the size of a silver half-dollar, and cutting the flesh on the bottom of the other very badly. She was rendered insensible by the shock, and was supposed for a time to be dead, but was not dangerously hurt. Another ladyjg dress was somewhat torn. Another streak of lightning flashed into the room where lay the body of the child. The floor in the center of the room was torn up, and two dogs in the cellar killed outright.

The Stomach Cannot Be Freighted With greater trash than a violent drastic purgative. True, such a medicine relieves constipation for the time, but at the expense of great injuiy to the intestinal canal, which it both inflames and weakens, thus unfitting it for the performance of its proper functions. Widely different is the action of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a tonic aperient, which produces effects prompt, indeed, but never violent and convulsing. The purity of its botanic ingredients, its unobjectionable flavor, its genial influence upon the mind, and the thoroughness of its remedial action in cases of constipation, liver complaint and dyspepsia, combine to render it a most desirable family specific. It increases both physical vigor and substance, traaquilizes and invigorates the nervous system, and gives an unwonted relish for the food. A wine-glass three times daily is about the average dose. A note found on the body of a suicide at Worcester, Mass., contained the following: “Don’t think I am insane or anything of the kind. Simply, I can find no work at anything, from shoveling to steam-engineering. I have tried over twenty cities and farmers without number, and rather than beg or steal do this act. My reputation is unsoiled.”

Lost Seven Founds in Three Weens. Allan’s Anti-Fat is a genuine medicine, and will reduce corpulency from two to five pounds per week. Purely vegetable and perfectly harmless, acting entirely on the food in the stomach, preventing the formation of fat It is also a positive remedy for dyspepsia and rheumatism. Boston, Mass., Feb. 11, 1878. Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo. N.Y’.; Gentleman : The lady alluded to lost seven pounds in three weeks, by the use of Allan’s Anti-Fat Yours truly. Smith, Doolittle 4 Smith, Wholesale Druggists. Thbre is no time to be lost when a cough attacks one in adopting means of prevention against consumption and bronchitis. A cough may, with perfect truth, be termed the incipient stage of those destructive maladies, and it is the height of folly to disregard it U neglected it will assuredly culminate in some dangerous pulmonary affection, but, if Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam fob the Lungs be used, the complaint is speedily vanquished and all danger averted. There is no pulmonic comparable to this great specific. Boid by Druggists. People residing in paludal districts, or removing to such localities, can place reliance in the efficacy of Dr. Wilhoit’s Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonij, to prevent, of’rather counteract, all malarial diseases. It never fails to cure Chills and Fever, Dumb Chills and Enlarged Spleen, Mid is guaranteed to contain no dangerous drug. The composition of this medicine is given with each bottle, and can be had from all druggists. The vanilla bean, hitherto used as a flavoring essence, has been found to be of great assistance in dyeing, and the increase of its culture in the Mauritius has been greatly augmented of late with a view of supplying the French demand. CHEW The Celebrated • Matchless • Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York. Boston and Chicago An Article of True Merit.—“ Brown’s Bronchial Troches” are the most popular article in this country or Europe for Throat Diseases and Coughs, and this popularity is based Upon real merit 25 cts. a box. A thoroughly good Cabinet or Parlor Organ is worth two poor ones. Mason A Hamlin make the best. The prices are a little higher than those of poorest organs, but it is much cheaper iu the end to obtain the best The Mendelssohn Piano Co., No. 21 East 15th Street, N. 1., sell Pianos at Factory Prices. Write for a catalogue. See CoL A. W. McCormick’s pension card. He is one of our most successful attorneys. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco. Smoke Pogue’s “Sitting Bull Du rham Tonacco. ”