Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Wht seek longer for perpetual motion? It can be found in the gas meter. That decision simply means that the Government and not the Louisiana lottery is running the United States mails. Mail wagon robberies are becoming as frequent between New York and Jersey as out West. What is the trouble anyway? A “White Cap” leader was hanged In effigy recently near the town of Sterling, N. Y. Why not hang a few of them au naturel? A Chicago newspaper speaks of •Patti and her buoyant spirits.” It is not so exceedingly difficult to be buoyant on $5,000 per night. Try it once. They are making oil out of corn now, but that noble grain rye lias not yet been degraded by application toany purpose save the one for which Nature obviously intended it. By love’s delightful influence all the injuries of the world are alienated, the bitter cup of affliction is sweetness, and fragrant flowers are strewn along the most thorny path of life. People are sometimes curious to know whence came the word “jag,” as descriptive of a big load of whisky in a man. It has not yet been determined, but likely enough it is derived from jug. A big army Uncle Sam can raise at any time upon three weeks’ notice. But shijs and heavy guns and protection to harbors are things that don’t grow up like Jonah's gourd. They have to be kept in stock, more or less. If a man abuses an enemy, he hurts himself, and if he praises him, the people say he is a hypocrite. There seems to be no course a man can adopt under any circumstances that can be more creditable than the simple course of keeping still. SoMEnow the prospectus of that new electric line between St. Louis »nd Chicago, with its promised speed of 100 miles an hour, its absolutely straight track, its illuminated road, and other accessories, sounds as if Mr. Pennington of airship fame had taken his pen in hand again. actions are performed in niinor struggles. There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which ao eye sees, no reuown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment md poverty are battlefields which nave their heroes.

The Birmingham (England) Medical Beview for October, 1890, contains an article on “Food and Its Adulterations,” in which it is stated that, “quite apart from any question is to the injury resulting to the hu'xnan system from taking these salts, it would only he right that the medical profession should resolutely discountenance the use or any and all lecret preparations confessedly adulterations, anc adulterations, too, of a sort not justified by any of the exigencies of the circumstances. Cocoa Is only to be recommended when it is as pure as possible.” Humanity, it appears, is in serious danger from one of those trivial causes which are scarcely to he detected at first sight, but have sometimes changed the fate of nations. One-half the woes from which men suffer would disappear if they would but cast aside the collar button, and never wear it more. Thus says a philosopher, who may have incurred his antipathy to the collar button by chasing it around his room on one of the recent cold mornings, while arrayed in little more than Adam sported in the Garden of Eden. Well, it will not cost as much to try the experiment in leaving buttons aside. Married men are provided for; but who is to pin the bachelors’ collars on? Mattie Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is finally a duchess, having been married twice in two days, with a profusion of ceremonies, to Duke de la Rochefoucauld. The Duke has altogether the better of the bargain, as the wealth of the bride is tangible, whereas his titles are pure pretense and have no legal recognition. The presents were numerous and costly to the bride’s parents. Minister Beid attended all the weddings, giving away, or rather transferring the bride, and assisting in every, way to give the titular-finan-cial affair an appropriate advertisement. Tho weddings were exceedingly private, invitations having been studiously confined to a few persons with long pedigrees and a sufficient number of reporters to exploit the pedigrees in the newspapers. Cupid is understood to have sent his ■ m ■ gj * l A writer in the Hospital Gasette, of London, says: “We do not regard all adulterations as equally heinous. When, however, potent chemicals are systematically added, what words can sufficiently eoevev our indignation! * * * Cbeoa of the meat excellent quality Wd of absolute parity is now to be