Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — She was Sick. [ARTICLE]

She was Sick.

Johnny’s mother was sick with congestion of the lungs, and her pastor meeting her son Johnny on the street, stopped him: “ Well, Johnny,” said he, “ how is your mother, and why has she not been at church ?” “ She is sick, sir,” he replied. “ Ah, and what is the matter, Johnny?” “Why, sir, the doctor says as how she has got chestnuts on her lungs, k The preacher called around at once to learn the exact state of the case.— Steubenville Herald.

Thebe are 7,000,000 persons in the United States engaged in agricultural pursuits. The total value of farms and farm implements is $13,361,200,433, or two-thirds of the productive wealth of the nation. The value of farm products and live stock for 1878 was $3,000,000,000, against $2,800,000,000 of mining and manufacturing products. From this it appears that a majority of the adult male population is engaged in agriculture, and more than one-half the wealth of the nation is invested in that industry. I move, said a delegate in a Virginia convention, “that our Chairman take a dose of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup; he is so hoarse that I cannot understand him.” That gentleman fead no donbt tried this wonderful medicine.

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