Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1887 — Resisting Temptation. [ARTICLE]

Resisting Temptation.

Tommy—ls it wrong for little boys to smoke, papa? Papa—Very. It takes away all their appetite, among other things. Tommy—Guess I’ll have to take to it, papa. That jar of tamarinds that mamma told me not to touch is tempting me altogether too much. — Tid-Bits. Show animals are cheap this year, judgfng from the prices prevailing in Philadelphia the other day, when O’Brien’s menagerie was offered at auction. Three elephants brought $1,500, $1,300, and $1,010; a black antelope, $400; a lioness, $250; a royal Bengal tiger, $350; a leopard, $190; a camel, $140; an emu, $100; an elk, $75; a hyena, $45; and a yak, S2O. * * * * Piles, fistulffi, rupture, and stricture radically cured. Book of particulars 10 cents m stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. How to tell a gentleman—go right up to him and speak out. *