Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1891 — Concerning Clowns. [ARTICLE]

Concerning Clowns.

It is a strange coincidence that sow* eral American clowns, and at least one English pantomimlst, have all died Insane. Hitherto the general belief among professionals has been that the quantity of bismuth used In “making up," parties larly In America, where the hair la era» ped close and the bismuth rubbod kilo the side of the head, had a great deal to do with disease. But one old pantoißiinist still living solemnly attests that, so far as his experience went, the bismuth not only left his faculties unimpaired, but had the merit of he sores and cracks In the skin. • F. Zugbaum, merenant tailor, wishes to give notice to his many friends and patons in Rensselaer and vicinity that he will close his shop during the dull season of January and February, but will reopen it in March, with a muoh larger stock of goods, and be prepared to do a much larger business than heretofore. 2t