Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — We All Know Jenks. [ARTICLE]

We All Know Jenks.

First Banker —“Do you know Jenks ?” Second Banker—“l met him the other day for the first time.” First Banker—“ What sort of a fellow is he? How did he strike you?” Second Banker —“He struck me for $5. ” —Cambridge Chronicle. The editor of the Corsicana, Texas, Observer, Mr. G. P. Miller, had a severe attack of rheumatism in his left knee, which became so swollen and painful that he could not walk up the stairs. He writes that after a few applications of St. Jacobs Oil, the pain entirely disappeared, and the knee assumed its normal proportions. Abernethy, the celebrated surgeon, finding a large pile of stones opposite to his door, on his returning home one afternoon in his carriage, swore hastily at the pavior and desired him to remove them. “Where will I take them to?” asked the Hibernian. “To hades!” cried the choleric surgeon. Paddy looked up in his face, saying, with an arch smile, “Hadn’t I better take them to heaven? Shure they’d be more out of your honor’s way.” Catholics have invaded Mormondom, and will erect a college at Salt Lake. Summer coughs and colds generally come to stay, but the use of Bed Star Cough Care invariably drives them away. Safe, prompt, sure.