Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — Inventions of the 19th Century. [ARTICLE]

Inventions of the 19th Century.

The steamboat, the reaper, the sewing machine Cars running by night and by dav, Houses lighted by gas and heated by steam, And bright electricity’s ray. The telegraph’s click speeds like lightning released, Then the telephone comes to excel it • And, to put on the finish, the last, but not least, Is tho famed little Purgative Pellet. Last, but not least, is Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellet, because it relieves human suffering adds to tue sum of human comfort, and enables the relieved sufferer to enjoy all the blessings and luxuries of the age we live in. Epitaph on an editor’s tombstone in Maine: “Within this town he lived and.lied For forty years, and then he died. ”