Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1883 — An Impossibility. [ARTICLE]

An Impossibility.

Deserving articles are always appreciated. The exceptional cleanliness of Parkers Hair Balsam makes it popular. Gray hairs are impossible with its occassional use. ■in.—— ■ The New York letter in the Detroit Free Press ears i* seems almost incredible, and bad I not had ocular proof I should not dare to state It, tnat a single dress, just finished for a Icdy in that city has on it 1800 buttons of var>ing sizes. Ten days were consumed in. arranging and sewing on the buttons by a seamstress On each sleeve there were 100 buttons; on the body, basque and collar 350, and on the skirt 1350, , The Scientific American gives the following receipt as a sure cure for corns: If aay of our readers are afflicted with these unpleasant companions, it would probably be well for them to 'give it a trial as The remedy is very simple; “Take one-fourth cup of strong vtuegar, crumb into some bread. Let it stand halt an hour, or until it softens'into a good poultice, Alien apply on retiring for the night. In the morning tho sereness wifi be gone, and tbs corn can be picked out. If the corn is a very obstinate one it ma> require two or more applications to effect a cure.” A writer in an exchange says; “I discovered many years ago that wood oould be made last longer than iron in but thought the process so simple that it was not well to ‘make a stir about it. I would as soon hare poplar, basswood, or ash as any other kind of timber for fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts after having been set seven years that were as rfound when taken out&s when first put ia the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect on them. The posts can be prepared for less than |two cents apiece. This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverized coal to the consistency of paint. Put acoa; of this over the timber, and there is not a man that will live to ses it rot,”