Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Men would be less wicked if they would hunt for fewer opportunities. Those who would not eat the forbidden fruit, should not come near the forbidden tree. The number of persons who are said to work on Sundays in this country is two million and a half. A useful internal remedy for that state of the system which predisposes one to warty growths, is arbor vitte leaves, and they may be chewed fresh or green. Six young bachelor farmers of Lida, Minn., have written to the Mayor of New York for wives. They think that their farm titles ought to catch New York girls. A Kentuckian who had arrived at majority offered his first vote the other day, but so great was his excitement that he fell in a heap in a dead faint, and could not sit up for an hour. At a wedding in Arcadia, Fla., the other day, the bride was married to her ninth husband, and four of her former husbands were present at the ceremony to sympathize with the ninth victim. A physician remarks that there is a very direct relation between tea drinking and cold feet, and that some women experience a cold perspiration of •the soles of the feet as a result of tea drinking. The Hartwell, Ga., Sun says that for every five miles of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad a murder has been committed, with which the gangs at work on the road have been connected. A stern father in Keya Paha County, Nebraska, with a large family of girls, has passed the cold edict that each beau who frequents the domicile through the winter must contribute a load of sawed stove wood. The Spanish Government has fully indorsed the action of the Cuban officials in coolly assassinating four state prisoners who had been lied to in ah outrageous manner to get them into a trap. Such crimes delight a Spaniard. The leading Indians now admit that ihey never believed in the coming of a new messiah, but that the ghost dances were instituted to work the young men up to a fighting pitch. They were worked up, but they had to settle down again. An old man in Germany who was written up in the papers as being 104 years old was proved by court records to be only 89. He was arrested, tried as an impostor, and it took S4O to pay fine and costs. It’s a good and proper way to discourage a liar. A town in Missouri celebrated Washington’s birthday on March 21 instead of February 22. The excuse was that they didn’t hear about his anniversary until two days before the celebration came off, but they made it a hustler to make up for lost time. The three or four French artists who started out two or three years ago to introduce men angels in their pictures of heaven have had to give it up and return to all females. If there is any heaven for men the public won’t admit it, at least in the angel business. They were voting for the handsomest girl in Dubuque the other night, at 10 cents a vote, when a “girl” of 40, with a tum-up nose, a freckled face and a cataract in one eye, stepped up and laid down $l5O in cash and took the prize over the other thirty-eight competitors. Two New York newspaper men paid out their money for fads the other morning. One paid $4,400 for a jar only large enough to hold a peck of beans, while the other paid a judge $lO for having been on a drunk. It’s just as a man feels about those things, you know. Thirty years ago there was at Springfield, Ohio, a mischievous boy named Lattler. Recently a number of old citizens of that place have received sums of money aggregating SSOO from Dr. Lattler, of Buffalo, to pay for property destroyed in his boyhood pranks. “Two years ago Secretary Windom was supposed to be worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but his estate, so far as has been traced, is valued at not above six thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars is a life insurance policy,” says the New York World. The average prisoner sent to the average Michigan jaiHs&etter fed and better lodged than tne average laborer, and in addition he is kept warm, famished with tobacco and a pack of cards, and the majority of them gain ten pounds of flesh for every thirty days they are under lock and key. More than 100 arrests have been made in this country since Valentine’s Day of parties who “got even” by sending caricatures on that day. It’s an offense against the postal laws, and it is this practice which has brought the custom into such disrepute that it won’t be heard of a year or two A Portuguese scientist, Senhor da Costa, is reported to have discovered