Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1890 — $2,500 Reward for a Lost Cat. [ARTICLE]

$2,500 Reward for a Lost Cat.

The equivalent in English money of $2,500 was once offered by an old lady in London for the return of a favorite cat which had strayed or been stolen. People called her a “crank,” and perhaps she was. It is unfortunate that one of the gentler sex should ever gain this title, yet many do. It however, frequently not their fault. Often functional derangements will apparently change a woman’s entire natute. Don’t blame such sufferers if they are “cranky,” but tell them to use Dr. Pi tree’s Favorit ’ Prescription, which is an infallible remedy for “female weaknesses." It will soon restore them to their normal condition. It is warranted to give satis action in every case, or money paid for it will be returned. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, the original and only genuine Little Liver Pills; 25 cents a vial; one a dose. Hotels are few and ill-conducted in Brazilian coast towns, but there are excellent French and German restaurants in Bahia and Pernambuco. When one has the bill to settle he finds that the score runs into the thousands. The basis of currency is an imaginary unit, the reis, 1,000 of which make a milreis, worth, apart from exchange, about 50 cents. The lowest nickel coin is 100 reis, worth 5 cents. Below these are copper coins, 20 reis being equivalent to 1 cent. If one dines with a friend at a restaurant the score will amount to 7,500 reis—a result startling to the uninitiated. , When realestate transactions are conducted the figures rise into the millions, and when trade statistics are computed billions and trillions are brought in. Reversing the process, one pays 2,000 reis to a boatman to go ashore from a steamer, 1,000 reis or a milreis for a bottle of beer and some cheese, 500 reis to a guide for pilotage throuah a public building, 200 reis for a ride on a street-car, 100 reis for a turn on tho lift from the upper to the lower floor, and another 100 reis for having his boots blacked.

Flowers are fadin> as trimmings for evening dresses, says a London paper, and the fashion is setting in toward b rds and insects. Flights of jet swallows are seen fleeing across the skirt of an evening dress. Perhaps the bodice will be ornamented with a swallow, too. Huge butterflies made of jet, gold tinsel, or of pearls and iridescent beads are made large enough to come right across tne front of the bodice of an evening dress. The wing are outspread, and the butterflies are said to be modeled from natural specimens. Smaller butterflies hover about the shoulders and on the skirt.