Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Howard Emmons, the ossified man, la dead. He died hard. A man who has investigated the question says that most women prefer to kiss a man who wears a mustache. While Chicago people are raving •gainst their boodle Aidermen let them just recall who elected these lawless law-makers. A Greek scholar has discovered that a woman wrote Homer’s “Odyssey.” It was undoubtedly Mrs. Bacon, was it not, Ignatius? The millionaire may be the architect of his own fortunes, but the people with whom he does business are ept to supply the building material at their own cost. A Boston barber claims to be the ewiftest man in his profession. He •ays he once shaved a man neatly and then ran 100 yards all in a minute and three-quarters. Whether the victim overtook him or not he fails to state. The young woman who brought suit against the authorities of Cambridge, England, for locking her up because she was walking with a University man has lost her case. The court was evidently impressed with the necessity of protecting University men. It seems a little hard to sue a mes•iah for $50,000 damages, but it is comforting to remember that Schweinfurth, the messiah in question, is abundantly able to pay it. There is one thing about the modern messiahs — they are always pretty well fixed. The electiic-light trust, that demanded $38.50 per arc lamp for illuminating the World s Fair grounds, admits that it made a mistake. What it meant to demand was S2O. There is a general suspicion that all it could get was about the size of the figure that the trust was after. The stories about those German balloons that sail out across the Russian frontier, remain stationary long enough to enable the occupants to take accurate military observations, and then sail back again, indicate that a star has arisen in Germany destined to outshine our own Joe Mulhatton. The hero who goes to a foreign country, and becomes rich, and returns with money fn his pockets in time to rescue his family from starvation, never lived outside of a novel. In real life his father has to send money for him to come home on, and he brings a wife and half a dozen children with him for the old father to support

The matrimonial fever wave has ■truck the doddering old ladies hard this spring. One of 90 has married a man of 35 in Maine; another of 70 bought up a youthful husband in Michigan, and another of 75 got hold of a youngster in Detroit a few days •go, and all the coy old girls had big fortunes in control. Verily the maidens are being distanced in the leapyear race by the maturer heads. It took four electric shocks to kil Jeremiah Cattojn the death chamber at Sing Sing, and all who were present agree that it was a revolting spectacle. Yet it does not seem wholly impertinent to recall that it required fourteen stabs with a butcher’s knife for Mr. Cattoto murder the man whose wife he coveted and for the slaughter of whom he has paid the penalty. Almost everybody eats too much •nd is the better for a little abstinence. Men have lived healthy lives on one-half what our idlers consume. Soldiers have made long marches and fought desperate battles on a regimen which a dry goods clerk would consider inadequate. The stomach can handle so much nitrogenous matter, •o much fat and so much of one of the various carbohydrates. More is •urplusage. clogs the machine and embarrasses the excretory organs.

One of the questions r/hich are agitating Paris at present is whether a druggist is Justified in declining to fill the prescription of a physician which he believes to have been made in ignorance of the dangerous character of the drug prescribed, or in which a mistake has been made as to the proper dose. The doctors hold that it is the druggist’s duty to fill the prescription and permit the patient to be killed, secundum artem, leaving the resp msibility with the prescribing physician. The druggists are in doubt. •There are to-day 30,000 families each living in a single room in this city,” said a woman orator in Central Music Hall, Chicago. “Air, sunshine, and water are the common property ©fall men, but the greed of men has made their equal enjoyment by all Impossible. Day by day our millionaires dying endow charitable institutions to be filled with sick paupers they had helped to make.” The picture is an accurate one; the condemnation deserved. But when the ■peaker came to suggest a remedy, what was it? Free baths! Oh, lame and impotent conclusion. ■ • When patent medicine proprietors •erd men about the streets distributingsample boxes of pills they are car-