Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — The Lady Next Door. [ARTICLE]

The Lady Next Door.

'Mrs. W. envied the lady next door be■cause she always seemed so well and happy. “She enjoys life and I don’t,” said the discontented woman. “How I would like to change places with her!” At last she made the acquaintance of the object of her envy, and this is what the lady told her: “Happv? Of course I am, tor I enjoy perfect health. My dear Mrs. W.. your face tells me why you. are not happy. You aro suffering from, functional derangements. I was a martyr to female weaknesses for years, but lir. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription cured me. as it will you ifvyou will try it.” It is guaranteed to .give satisfaction in every case or iprice ($1.00) returned. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, one a dose. Cure Jheadache, constipation, and indigestion. An elaborate system of protection •against fire is to be installed at the Brussels Theatre de la Monnaie during the summer holidays. An immense water tank will be oonnected with a number of small taps placed all over the building. When either of (these taps is turned the water will run intoe series of pipes playing upon the stage and will automatically bring down the iron curtain, ring nlarm bells and light electric lamps in all the passages, so that the audience may find their way if the gas fails. Some interesting experiments have been made in the vicinity of Copenhagen with tree-feding for .military purposes by dynamite. The object was to I ascertain the saving in time find labor effected by this method and the results were exceedingly satisfactory. Tree! of somuehas three feet in diameter were brought down in some twenty or twentyfive minutes, whereas the time occupied by ordinary felling would probably have been ten times greater. The gold mining craze in Maine continues unabated, according to this dispatch from Augustu “Gum Corner, in the town of Byron, is the center of operations, and miners are flocking there by hundreds. The pioneer aud discoverer of the field is G. A. Norcross, of Augusta. Nearly all the land in the vicinity has been bought up by prospectors.” The great salt lake of Utah is an immense limitless magazine of salt that can be readily obtained, in any desired quantity, by the simple process of evaporal ion.