Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1889 — The Work of the Doctors. [ARTICLE]

The Work of the Doctors.

Old Mrs. Bentley—What a lot of new diseases they have now they didn’t have twenty years ago! <> Old Mr. Bentley—Yes; but yoo Should remember, Eliza, we have a terrible sight mor 4ooton now than we bad twenty v .n ago.

In New Granada grows a plant which is locally known as the “ink plant” and scienti fical ly as Coriaria thymif olia. Its juice serves, without the slightest preparation, as ink. At first the writing appears red, but in a few hours it assumes a deep black hue. bev eral sheets of manuscript, written with this natural ink, became soaked with seawater on their journey to Europe, but when dried the writing was found to be still perfectly clear. John G. Lehr, appointed by the Allen County Commissionto look up taxes not reported, has made his first statement, showing a total of $3*5,775, the same including Edward Sei del for $70,000, Benjamin Rothschild for a similar amount, besides many others for smaller sums. Speaking of cheap farm pro ducts in Missourian exchange says: “It takes a oushel of oats now to buy a pound of sugar, a cow to buy a coat and a load of potatoes ro buy a pair of boots.” Mr. Edison says he receives an average of 1,000 letters daily many of which contain offers of marriage with his daugh ter. The craze for antique oak and white and gold furniture is on the increase.