Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — One of the National Vices. [ARTICLE]

One of the National Vices.

There is a brisk demand for spruce gum, and dealers are selling large quantities. Ladies are very fond of pure spruce gum. An-Augusta dealer recently sold a lot to go to a millinery establishment in New York city. It is asserteu that girls are much better workers in millinery shops and other similar establishments when they have an abundance of gum to chew. A gentleman carried a pound of spruce gum with him to Africa. After his arrival he gave one of his countrymen residing there a cud, and almost immediately nearly every American on the coast was aftema chew of that gum. The latest report regarding spruce gum is that it is ap excellent remedy for dyspepsia. Itshould be chewed immediately after eating.— Bangor (Me.) Commercial, r much is a sign of vanity, fbr lie that is lavish in words is a niggard iq deed.—Sir Walter Raleigh,