Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — Important. [ARTICLE]

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When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, expressage, aud #3 carriage 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 sup'plied 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 city. The propriety and good taste of doing away with abbreviated names among women is fast growing in favor, and the good old fashion of giving the full name is regarded as the correct and dignified thing. Mollie, and Mattie, and lillie, and Maggie are again Mary, Martha, Matilda, and Margaret —stately names, all of them, and full of significance, whereas their diminutives are silly and meaningless; and women are gradually awakening to the fact that it is far more elegant to reserve these pet names, if they be used at all, for the household, and to sign themselves always in addressing those outside this little circle with the full name they received at the baptismal fount. In this respect our ancestors showed a proper amount of dignity, and it would be well now if the oid form of addressing women as Mistress Ann Page, Mistress Catherine Smith, etc., were revived. The present custom of retaining the maiden name as a middle name after marr age, and the use of the husband's Christian name by widows, are both sensible, as they identify the individual with a certain family.

Sharp Pangs Athwart the Forehead, And in the muscles of the neck and shoulder, usually most violent alter nightfall, are among the cheerful manifestations of neuralgia It is an affection of the nerve intensified by a cold. Repose, bringing with it a cessation of pain, is induced by Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which is a fine nerve tonic and tranquilizer. It is also a reliable means of checking rheumatism and gout. These maladies have always more or less to do with the kidneys that, when inactive, fail to throw off tho impurities which engender them. The Bitters can be relied upon to renew a healthy and purifying action of the renal organs. Besides this, it gives tone to the stomach, liver, and bowels, and enriches the circulation. Aj petite and sleep both profit by it, and it is a well accredited means of fortifying the system against malaria. It hastens the recovery of strength by convalescents, mitigates the infirmities of age, and helps the constitutionally feeble. A Southern Cure for Spring Fever. Jest go an’ git you a lian’ful of dogwood, a Ixan’ful of cherry, and a han’ful of poplar bark. Then git you a little gran’sir graybeard root, and burn nine red corncobs —be shore and get red ones —an’ save the ashes, an* beat all them barks an’ roots an’ ashes up fine. Then go to the blacksmith-shop and git a han’ful of clean cinders, an’ git a little piece o’ brimstone, an’ a little piece o’ sulphur, an’ a little piece o’ saltpeter, an’ beat them all up fine. Then mix them two powders together, and take a teaspoonful three times a day for nine days, an’ then rest nine days, an’ then begin again an’ take it nine days; an’ do this three times. By that time you’ll have it all tuck up, an’ you’ll be as fat as a hog. —Georgia Farmer, in Atlanta Constitution. One among the many eminent church dignitaries who have given their public endorsement to the wonderful efficacy of St. Jacobs Oil, in case of rheumatism and other painful ailments, is the Right Reverend Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio.