Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — Of Course He Would. [ARTICLE]

Of Course He Would.

“If -you should allow me sl4 per week on which to run the house,” she said, as they sat together in the twilight, “and I saved $3 per week out of that, what would you say?” “ Say ? Why, I’d say that you ought to run it on ’leven!” he growled, as he lighted the gas.— Detroit Free Press. One sometimes sees a drunken man pitched violently from a horse, and when the bystanders rush to the spot, expecting to find him dead, they are astonished to discover that he has been little injured. In his “Scrambles Among the High Alps,” Leslie Stephen tells the story of a guide whd while drunk fell over a precipice so deep that a fall over it seemed almost certain death, and who yet sustained little injury. Stephen accordingly gives his readers the advice either not to fall over a precipice, or to get thoroughly drunk before doing so. The reason of this immunity is that the nerve centers are so much parab zed in the drunken man as not to be affected by the shock of the fall, which in a sober man would have acted upon them so violently as to stop the heart, arrest the circulation, and cause instant death. * * * * Delicate diseases in either sex, however induced, speedily cured. Book, 10 ( cents in stamps. Ad4ress, In confidence, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, OC3 Main street, Buffalo, Ni Y. The. Secretary of the Interior is Curtlus to ail. ...