Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — A CURE FOR HICCOUGHS. [ARTICLE]

A CURE FOR HICCOUGHS.

Some Effect- of the I’ungent Oder ol Musk. Most people take it for granted that because musk is sold in what is called a pod, therefore It is a vegetable product. But the truth is it is entirely an animal product, being a substance found in a two or three-inch sac in the body of the l ittle musk-deer of Asia. This sac, when tied up and dried; goes by the name of a pod among the hunters who bring it into market. Probably there are few things subject to such adulteration, as one part of pure'musk will scent thousands of parts of some other powder mingled with it; and as the pod sells for from sl6 to S2O apiece, the adulteration has its profits. It is, indeed, so pungent that when just fresh it has been known to produce violent bleeding at the nose, and people are so susceptible to it us to have sad headaches brought abo t by contact with the pure article; and while a suspicion of it is very agreeable to many persons, one atom becomes offensive, as the case is with patchouli and many other odorous substances. It was formerly largely used in therapeutics, especially in the Orient, having become disused as much from the difficulty of obtaining it in a pure state as from anything else, and is now seldom given, except for hysteria and . hiccough.

Marbles 1 ct. per dozen. Pm's Ict per paper. Oarpettacks Ict: per taper. Clothes pins 1 ct. per dozen. Chicago Bargain Stere. “Wealth never gave me an ounce of pleasure,” said a millionaire, “until I began to do good with it.” If all our millionaires could learn this iesson what a cooct w. rid this would rapidly become. It is r-ported that several hundred dead cattle are frozen in the Jamison Lake in the Grand Coulee, Washsngton, and that they stand in the ice looking as natural as life.