Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — Curious Words [ARTICLE]

Curious Words

It is said there are only two words in the English language which contain all the vowels in their order. They are “abstemious” and “facetious. ” The following each have them in irregular order: Authoritative, disadvantageous, eucouraging, efficacious, instantaneous, importunate, mendacious, nefarous, precarious, pertinacious, sacreligious, simultaneous, tenacious, unintentional, unequivocal.and vexatious. No Opium In Plso’s Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. It was found that the loss by evaporation from a large tank for supplying the city of Nagpur with water was in the hottest season two and a half times as great as the quantity supplied for consumption.