Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1882 — And the People Pay the Piper. [ARTICLE]

And the People Pay the Piper.

[Cincinnati Commercial, Rep.] Notwithstanding the attempt at peaoepatching betweeu the Stalwarts and halffbreods in Pennsylvania, there is bound to be mosie in the air. The Boston political o servers say that General Ben Butler is by no means to be considered as a mere cipher In Masiaobusetts politics. His nephew. "G. H. B," revives a story of him to the effect that once, when he was asked to come under a tree in a thundei storm, he said; ”No, you don’t. I had a nephew struck by lighting—it runs in the family!” Acting under a recent decision of Ohief Justice John Appleton, of the Supreme Court of Maiue, that a Masonic Lodge is not a charitable iost.tution, the lcoal Assessors are assessing taxes upon the property of Masons. Odd Fellows and K' igbts of Pythias. It is said the Masons intend to make a tight against the decision of Judge Appleton, and they have retained Hon. J. H. Drummond as oouncil.

Some years ago Maguire, of San Francisco, was conversing with a Mend, when, a small farmerslike man, with a square head, dark, bright eyes, scanty hair, a lean parchmenty face, and a suit of loose brown clothes, asked the way to the stage door. “Wgo is that greenhorn?” asked the friend of Maguire. "Greenhorn!” replied the manager. “Why. that is Joe Jefferson to rehearsal.” A greens borne Mr. Joe Jegerson Joes look, as he wanders about off the stage with his rod and line, or with his sketch book and crayon. These are his two relaxations. He is proud of his piscatorial success, and proud of his artistio skill with the pencil or brush. Several of his pictures have been ox hiblted in London and Paris.

HE EXTINGUISHED HIM. The other evening, at a little dinner party, one of the guests, the younger brother of an English nobleman expressed, with commendable freedom, his opinion of America and its people. I do not altogether like your country, said the young gentleman, for the reason, because you have no gentry here. Why, what do you mean by gentry? asked another of the company. Well, you know, replied the Englishman, well, oh, gentry are those who never do any work themselves, and whose father before them never did any. Ah! exclaimed the interlocutor, then we have plenty of gentry in America; but we don’t call them gentry, we call them tramps A laugh went rouud the table, and the yourg Englishman turned hi 3 conversation into another channel.

Health Hints A Frenchman has discovered that the severest attack of neuralgia ca 1 berilieved by directing a stream of water from a force-pump agaiust the part affected. To cure a felou, as soon as the parts begin to swell, wrap the part affected with a cloth thoroughly saturated with tinture of lobelia, and the felon is dead. An old physician says he knows it to have cured scores of cases, and it never tails if applied in season. Diptheria has been very prevalent in Australia, and one of the moat successful remedies is said to have been a tew drops of sulphuric acid in a tumblerful of water. The result of this mixture is said to be a coaeulation of the diphtheritic membrane and its ready removal by ingWhen the voice is lost, as is sometimes the case, from the effects of cold, a simple, pleasant remedy is furnished by beating up the white ot oue egg, adding to it the juice of one lemon, aud sweetening with white sugar to taste. Take a teaspoonful from time to time. It has been known to effectually cure the ail. ment. To cure a cough, roast a lemon very carefully without burning it; when it is thoroughly hot, cut and squeeze into a cup upon three ounces of sugar, finely powered* Take a spoonful whenever your cough troubles you. It is as good as it is agreeable to the taste. Rarelv has it been known to fail of giving relief.

A sure cure for soft corns is to dip a bi l of BOft linen rag into turpentine and wrap it around the soft corn; wet the corn in it night and morning, and in a few days the corn will have disappeared. But the reliet to the throbbing, burning pain comee almost immediately after the first or second application. Wear cotton between the toes, and the corns will not reappear. The Gazette Medicale of France «ays that by an accident charcoal has been discovered to be a cure for burns. By laying a piece of cold charcoal upon a burnTthe pain subsides immediatly. By leaving the charcoal on one hour, the wouud is healed, as lias been demonstrated on several occasions. The remedy is cheap and simple, aud certainly deserves a trial. We have tried many .experiments to induce sleep. The very best method we have yet discovered is that of counting. Breathe deeply and slowly (without any straining effort,) and with every respiration count one, two, three, etc., ap to a hundred. Some persons will be asleep before they oount fiity in this manner. Others will count ten, twenty, or tbiny, and then forget themselves and cease counting. Very few persons can count a hundred and find themselves awake but should this happen, repeat the dose until cured.

Gainesville Texas Hesperian: A few days ago we gave an account of the r death of a man and his wife, camped . out ne»r Bronham —movers —being • found dead sitting in their chairs in i camp, and a baby found alive, tho only living thing there. The Bronham Independent gives the following additional particulars, which are no doubt reliable, of the distressing affair: We obtained them from a gentleman from Burton who tells us Dr. Mayfield, of Burleson county, ssys that last week a family of movers from Tennessee camped fer the night at Porter 3 Prairie, the father aud mother sa down to supper, leaviug their baby on the ground. During the night Mrs. Porter heard the child crying, but being alone did not venture out. The next morning the man and woman were found dead in their chairs, and the baby had crawled from one to the other until its dress front was completely worn away. The manner of their death was a mystery, until the coffee pot was examined, among the dregi of which was found a large centipede whioh had been boiled in the coffee. They had two fine mules, reported to be worth S2OO eaob, S4OO 'in money and SI,OOO in notes from Tennessee were found 'in their possession. Th® parties designated oa the notes have been received. Mrs. Porter has the child at her bouse; it is a bright little thing and is about ten months old.

A pine tiee that was cut down In Oregon, not long Since, reminds one Of Waebinton City. It has more than a thousand rings. A bald headed Harlem m&B. in anticipation of the sutamor season, has had a spider painted oa the top of his head to frighten off the flies. A Federal official who has a position in New York bui who lives out of town, was boasting about his democratic .habits He said- “Now because I hold a place under the Government you don’t see me put on a re. No, sir. Why there’s my wife in the country; she carries swill to a dozen hogs every day—a dozen! And yet we don’t put. on any airs.”