Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — Quick and Sure. [ARTICLE]

Quick and Sure.

Many miserable people drag them* selves about with failing strength, feeing that they are steadily sinking into their graves. When by using Parker’s Ginger Tonic they would find a cure commencing with the firs dose, and vitality and strength quickly and surely coming back to them

Five lads who went out from Greennock, Scotland, in a small boat to rescue two other boys who were in a great-peril, were driven over to the Helenburgh shore, where they drew the boat up in safety, but it was after ward destroyed by a storm. The owner sued them t recover damages, but the court ruled that the boys were not responsible, and complimented them for their bravery.

The rarebt coin in the United States is the double-eagle of 1840, of which there is only one in existence, belonging to the cabinet of the United States min'. The next in rarity is the halfeagle < f 1815. It is said that the King of Sweden to complete his collection of Ur-it- d States coins, paid $2,000 for a sue litnen. Only five of these halfcables are in existence. The silver dollar of 1804 is rare and valuable. O -ly ttn pieces of the kind are to be sou-1.

The robin has a red breast. They have a plaintiff song, and sing as though they were sorry for sumthing. They get their name from their great ability for robbin’ a cherry tree. They kan also rob a currant bush fust rate. If it was not for these robbers we shud all be eaten up by caterpillars; but I think the robins might let us have now and then just one of our own cherriz, tew see how they taste. The bat. They fly very much uns*artin, end act as though they had taken a leetle to much gin What they are good fori kan’t tell and don’t,believe they can tellneith er.” —Josh Billings.

James Buchanan Evans was one of the head clerks in the Treasury department eighteen j'ears ago, and a great favorite in Washington society. He was a noted wit, a graceful dancer, wealthy and a free di inker, ’a Miss Harvey’was a Washington belle. She b. 1' nged to a Norfolk family and lin'd be' n carefully reared. This couple caused a social flutter by eloping and getting married They did not return, ano were soon forgot en in the circl.'S in which they had moved. Even their relatives lost light of them A few days ago, while a women was singing and dancing on the stage in concert saloon in Milwaukee, she was told that her husband was lying tin conscious in a bar-room. It was common for him to get drunk, and she attached little importance to the message; but her daughter, also a performer, went to see her father, an 1 found him dying from i fractured skull. . , T He was trie once courted James Buchanan Evans, and had become a sot. The wornaa was the former belle, Miss Harvey, and had turned her accomplishments to account in low form of the show business.