Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — A Brutal Conductor. [ARTICLE]

A Brutal Conductor.

“I can’t let this girl travel over this road on that half-fare ticket, ” said the new conductor to the Widow Flapjack. “Why not ? What is the matter with my little girl?” ■ “She is no child. She is more than half grown.” “Well, if that don’t beat everything then I’ll give it up. Here poor little Mamie has been traveling over this road on a child’s ticket for the last ten years, and now all at once you say she is no child. That’s a new way to worry the traveling public.” She paid full fare, and then the diminutive girl in the corner pulled herself out, so to speak, like a marine telescope. —Texas Sijtings. We see occasionally reports of tapeworms in nursing infants. These cases are doubtless due to a common notion that it is a good thing for a baby to give it a piece of raw meat to suck and chew on. This is folly any way. A baby is better without it, and the danger of its swallowing an encysted tapeworm ought to abolish the practice—were this danger more generally known. —Dr. Footers Health Monthly. Important. When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, expressage, and $3 carnage hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best Horse cars, stages, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the oity.