Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — A Doctor’s Occupation Gone. [ARTICLE]

A Doctor’s Occupation Gone.

A good story is told of a doctor whose most profitable patient was an old lady who suffered greatly from dyspepsia, nervousness and weak kidneys. His medicines seemed to relieve her, but did no permanent Sood. Her nephew induced a trial of Dr. uysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, which benefited her so much that she dismissed the doctor. His peculiar sensitiveness caused him to give up his practice, and, instead of responding to professional calls, ho often merely grunted “take Guigott’s,” which saying became proverbial in the neighborhood, and a large sale of this medicine soon sprang up. Ask your druggist to get it for you.

The meanest man on record is the one who promised his boy a pair of skates if he would not cry for a week, and when the time was nearly up, and the boy felt certain of the skates, took him into the shed and thrashed him. Hansom cabs are run in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and passengers are carried to nearly any point in the city for 25 cents, or two persons for the same price. The Dartmouth asserts that 30 per cent, of the students of that college are skeptics. Women are most perfect when most womanly.— Glads tone.