Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — Queer Things in Mexico. [ARTICLE]

Queer Things in Mexico.

It seems queer to purchase sage for the dressing of a fowl at the apothecary shops, to wnich one mast also go for soda for cooking. Shoe stores do not have shoe-horns in stock, but you are referred from them to the hardware stores. An apothecary does not sell whole packages; that is, you cannot buy a bottle of patent medicine at your apothecary’s, but must go to a ■wholesale drug store. Rope takes the place of nails in temporary structures, and carpenters or masons erect stagings tied with cord for their work, and it is rare that one of these stagings falls, the cord making a stronger combination than nails. This is an idea that might be copied in the States.— Boston Herald. Sick and bilious headache cured by Dr. Pierce’s “Pellets.”