Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1885 — How Divorces Are Got in Japan. [ARTICLE]

How Divorces Are Got in Japan.

Marriages are arranged by the respective pat ents, assisted by a man and his wife (mutual friends of the families as an intermediary. The statement sometimes made that the wife in Japan is a mere chattel, to be lightly acquired or disposed of, is absolutely false. Divorces among the better classes are scarcely more frequent or more frequently sought for than in many parts of America. The tricky divorce lawyer would starve in Japan. If a divorce is demanded, the matter must be laid before the families of the couple, with the intermediary spoken of, as arbitrators, and neither the man nor the woman can be released from the marriage vow without their concurrence. — Dr. D. B. Sommons. If posts are bored with a few holes from one foot above the ground line and downward, and filled with crude petroleum, the wood will be saturated and decay retarded. Then paint, just before setting, from one foot above the ground line downward, with a thick coat of raw linseed oil and lampblack, or finely pulverized charcoal. Sound posts will remain intact for years after posts not treated are decayed. * * * Secret, involuntary drains upon the system cured in thirty days. Pamphlet giving particulars, three letter stamps. Address, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. It is no sign because a man makes a stir in the community that he is a spoon.

Important.

When yon visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: fiOO elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel in the city. Some genius has invented a chin-holder for the violin. If he could only invent a hand-holder he would do more good.— Texas Siftings.