Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — There’s a Difference. [ARTICLE]

There’s a Difference.

Scene in a train dispatcher’s office. Enter Coroner: Coroner —“Can you tell me anything about that accident on your road ?” Train Dispatcher—“ What accident ?” “Why, the accident on your road, where a number of people have been killed and several injured. ” “I know of no accident.” “Well, that is queer; I was sent for on account of some smash-up.” “There’s nothing of the kind that I know of. Who are you ?” “Why, I am the Coroner, and ” “Ah! that makes a difference. I thought you were some kind of a newspaper man. Yes—” and then the dispatcher, who had heard nothing about the accident, gives the full particulars, and the Coroner is sent to the scene of the wreck. —Buffalo Express. In two recently excavated houses at Pompeii the paintings on the walls are as fresh as if just put on, and the halls are rich with decorations. Borne of the marble tables are still standing; the fountains in the atrium and peristyle, with their pretty little status and mosaics, look as if they might begin to play at any moment; the kitchen hearths, built like ranges, seem ready for their pots and kettles; a few flowerpots are still set in the gardens; in the storerooms are some oil jars and wine jars; it is as if one might begin housekeeping to-morrow, and invite one’s friends to dinner the day after. “The play’* the thing. Wherein I'll reach the conscience of the king." And equally true is it that Dr. .Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets’’ (the original Little Liver Pills) aro the most effectual means that can be used to reach the seat of disease, cleansing the bowels and system, and assisting nature In her recuperative work. By druggists.