Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTIOE TO FARMERS. Coen & Paxton, having bought the Hay and Grain business for merly owned by J. C. Porter, will pay the highest price for grain. NOTICE. All persons knowing their taxes for 1887 and former years are delinquent will please call and pay the same and save all further costs. Owing to recent prosecutions for sending postal cards containing notices of failure to pay indebtedness, none will be sent this year. I will send out collectors about Sept 16th, 1888. L B. Washburn, 52-3 t, Treasurer Jasper Co Gladstone's System of Working. One of the most strangely marked traits of Mr. Gladstone’s character is the method and exactitude which he brings to bear on his daily work, This is the great secret which enables him to get through an amount of labor which frightens ten ordinary men. It is owing to the possession of this quality that he is able, in tne midst of his arduous Parliamentary toil, to write articles, treating of such diverse subjects as the poems of Homer, the early Christian fathers, and modern theology. As a trifling instance of Mr. Gladstone’s curious habits of precision, it may be mentioned that be rarely opens a parcel without untying—not cutting—the string, priug it carefully up, and putting it away for future use in a drawer which is re served for the purpose. His papers and documents are also kept in scrupulous order by himself, so he can lay liis hands on any one of them at a moment’s notice. It is to his habit of doing so much of his work for himself that the mastery of detail, which Mr. Gladstone shows on every subject with which he grapples, is in a great measure due. Preserving Fish Alive. It is proposed to preserve fish alive by placing them in vessels partly filled with water and hermetically sealed. It is said that fish so confined have been found alive after three weeks without air or water having been changed, while fish in an open jar have died in forty-eight hours. If the air in the vessel is compressed the life of the fish. ijLstill further prolonged. Sublimity at Niagara. < Wise — “How great, how overwhelming, how beyond all compare, how exceeding all the wildest fancy paints the most extravagant imagine conceives.” Husband —“What, mydear? The falls, or the hotel bi.HV” ' Bring your poultry and eggs to me on the Bth of October and get the highest market price paid, in cash. J. W. King.