Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — A Strain on the Imagination. [ARTICLE]

A Strain on the Imagination.

They had been to see Bishop. She was a bright, sharp girl. He was a tender and beautiful dude. After the entertainment he was boring her with an attempted explanation. “I don’t quite understand,” she said, when he stopped talking a minute to rest his brain. “Aw,” he continued, “I am sure I can explain it; now, for instance, just imagine I am thinking ” “I could hardly imagine that, you know,” she interrupted, so pleasantly that the young man changed the subject.— —Washington Criti . To extract ink from mahogany, apply diluted sulphuric acid to the ink spot with a feather; let it lie for a few minutes and rub it off quickly, and repeat if not quite removed. “A most extraordinary and absolute cure for rheumatism and other bodily ailments is St. Jacobs Oil,” says Hon. James Harlan, ex-Yioe Chancellor, Louisville, Ky.