Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

New Jersey complains that it has a surplus of dogs. Has Mew Jersey no consumptive patients? The death of the late Mahdi left upward of forty widows. There is the chance for Senator Hill. Dr. Keeley thinks that asafetida will drive away la grippe. If asafetida is not handy Limburger cheese might serve. John L. Sullivan has signed the pledge again. His autographs at the foot of temperance pledges are only exceeded in number by his sprees. Mb. Howells can afford to laugh at his critics. In fact, a man with a salary of $17,000 a year can afford a great many things that critics can’t. “Sir, ’’said the great Senator sternly, “understand that my acts are governed by fixed principles.” Then the lobbyist fixed ’em and went away smiling. What’s in a name, anyway? The “Burial Expense Association,” chartered at Springfield, 111., recently, is declared by its incorporators to be for “amusement and social improvement.”

The English miners probably feei as much sympathy for Queen Victoria in the loss of her grandson as she feels for the loss of any of their grandsons, but they do not know how to manifest it diplomatically.

Howells thinks all letters of the future will be typewritten. There will be something painfully realistic in a typewritten love letter, and its only redeeming feature will be that it will look as if it meant business.

Miss Frances E. Willard is engaged in a praiseworthy attempt to attach the signatures of 1,000,000 women to a petition for peace with Chili. Bets are freely offered that she cannot get Colonel Phoebe Couzins to sign.

Philadelphia women have met and resolved that the nude shall be rigidly excluded from the approaching exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts unless it be in the form of portraits of ladies of the highest fashion attired for the opera.

There are two remarkable things about the death of the late Khedive of Egypt. One is that he died in his bed and is not suspected of having been murdered or committed suicide. The other is that his death is deeply mourned by the poor peasantry of EgyptPhysicians must excuse plain, every-day people for their lack of enthusiasm over the discovery of the grip microbe. It will be time enough to throw hats in the air when a remedy is discovered which —unlike antipyrine—will not kill more people than the disease. i Twenty-five years ago a young man named Tom Lowry walked home from St. Paul to Minneapolis because he had no money with which to pay his fare. Mow he controls all the street-cars in botbrtoowns, and when his cables get tired other people walk, whether they pay their fares or not. Some man is said to have discovered a method of deodorizing whisky. If thiß genius who has struck such a body blow at the clove industry can now devise a method of eliminating the “drunk” from the juice of the corn and the fermentation of the he can make bi-chloride of gold a drug in the market. Dr. Keeley says asafoetida in doses of sixteen grains, administered four times a day, is a specific for grip. A disease that would not get up and get away from a man with sixty-four grains of asafoetida exuding from the pores of his skin could easily be marked a tough. As a punishment to a family the treatment would be a howling success. More than 300 Baltimore girls have abandoned corsets as injurious to both health and beauty. The Balmore girls may yet convince their Bisters everywhere that what is beautiful in art is beautiful in life. The Venus de Medici statue has not a taper waist and it is the highest and best type of female beauty that art has given the world. Unnecessary ado is made over the discovery that Harvard students are branded on the arms as a part of the initiatory ceremonies of a secret society. In later years it gives much satisfaction to the alumni to point to these honorable scars, thus demonstrating that they have something else to show for their college course than merely a taste for liquor. Mexico will present her interests In the World’s Fair with $750,000 and Japan with $630,000. Mew York statesmen propose that the great Empire State, to which has,been accorded the largest space and the most Conspicuous position on the ground, shall have the enormous fund of $300,000 to make an exhibit The chances are that Mew York will be ashamed cf it after it is done. The statistics show that married men live much longer than bachelors. They are supposed to keep bettor hours and are better fed. Besides, «a old bachelor has not much to live