Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — An Arctic Appetite. [ARTICLE]

An Arctic Appetite.

If intensity of appetite is the measure of the pain suffered by persons who are starving to death, it would seem that to die in the arctic regions is a much greater agony than to die in the tropics, for cold sharpens hunger. Lieut. Greely says that his party had ferocious appetites during all the long sojourn in the north, each man eating with relish three meals of animal food and two lunches every day, and craving fat, though not to the extent some arctic travelers report. As a means to fortify the system against cold or brace it up for forced marches, whisky, rum, and other alcoholic stimulants were regarded as of little benefit.

Don’t take that “ cocktail in the morning.” If you have a “swelled head,” nauseated stomach, and unstrung nerves resulting from the “convivial party last night,” the sure and safe way to clear the cobwebs from the brain, recover zest for food, and tone up the nervous system, is to use Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasant lurgative Pellets.” Sold by all druggists.

“What have you to remark about my Binging?” asked an irate vocalist. “ Nothing,” replied a spec to tor; “it is not remarkable.”