Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1888 — Encouraging Trade. [ARTICLE]

Encouraging Trade.

Uncle Rastus (to Postmaster) —Has yo’ got enny letters fo’ me, boss ? Postmaster —Nothing to-day, Uncle Rastus. Uncle Rastus—No postal-kiards, or stamps, or nuthin’ ? Postmaster —No; were you expecting to hear from somebody ? 4 Uncle Rastus—No, I don’ expec’ ter hear from nobody, sah, but I was pasin’ by an’ I thought I wud jess step in an’ patronize de establishment. A dog in Davenport, lowa, having seized a young sparrow that had dropped to the sidewalk, was instantly set upon by half a dozen of the grown birds with a ferocity that not only made him drop his prey but sent him off howling, with the blood flowing from several places w here their sharp bills had struck him.

Moxie has created the greatest excitement as a beverage, in two years, ever witnessed, from the fact that it brings nervous, exhausted, overworked women to good powers of endurance in a few days; cures the appetite for liquors and tobacco at once, and has recovered a large number of cases of old, helpless paralysis as a food only. A Cincinnati tailor has failed. He lost his money speculating in wheat selvidges iu Chicago. Pbevent crooked boots and blistered heels by wearing Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners.