Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

WOOLEN RAGS. The Many Courses of Usefulness They Are Put Through. A writer in the North American Review says: “Woolen rags are more slowly converted into final products than those of cotton and linen, because they are valuable for intermediate uses. Before they are run to earth they do duty for many forms of cheap clothing. In the United Kingdom Batley, Dewsbury and Leeds are the grand markets for woolen rags, though the United States is running in close competition. The greasy,, frowsy, cast-off clothes of Europe reappear in pilot cloths, Petershams, beavers, Talmas, Chesterfields and Mohairs, which modern dandies wear when they consult economy as well as their outward appearance. Shoddy and mungo, the resurrection raw material of greasy beggars, mixed with a varying amount of true wool, is supposed to constitute about one-third of the woolen manufactures. This raw material for adulteration is, however, only made from rags which have already served higher purposes before this use. When woolen rags still adhere together they first go through the hands of various artists, who are named ‘clobberers,’ ‘revivers’ and ‘translators.’ The function of the clobberer is to patch up torn garments and restore them to their pristine appearance. The reviver rejuvenates seedy black coats and sells them to customers seeking for cheap garments. The translator transforms the skirts of old coats into waistcoats and tunics for children. When black ooats are too far gone to be clobbered or revived, they are sent to various countries to be made into caps, France, Russia and Poland requiring them in large quantity. The worn-out red tunics of British soldiers almost exclusively go to Holland to cover the chests of sturdy Dutchmen, who conceive them to be a protection against rheumatism. Uniforms of a better description, whether military or liveries, chiefly go to Africa for the wear of kings and chiefs. It is only after these transformations that the rags are torn down into shoddy and mungo for inferior cloths. When old woolen rags have reached their fourth stage of degradation, so that they are unfit for the shoddymaker, they are mixed with other degraded waste, such as shavings of hoofs and horns and the blood of slaughter houses, and are melted in an iron pot with wood ashes and scrap iron. This process produces the material out of which the beautiful dye Prussian blue is made.

The Ruling Passion. The ruling passion is always strong in death. A certain well-known citizen of St. Louis was recently confined to his bed for several weeks with a serious illness. During that time his barber visited the sick chamber three times a week to remove the hirsute accumulation from the invalid's chin. “Look here, Jim,” exclaimed the sufferer one day, “50 cents a visit is too much to charge a regular customer like me. You ought to make a reduction in my case. You make enough anyhow.” “That isn’t a circumstance to what I’ll charge after you’re dead,” was Jim’s reply. “I charge $5 for shaving a corpse. ” That set the invalid to thinking and he determined to get ahead of the barber if possible. Finally a day came when the invalid and every one else thought dissolution was near. A minister was called in and gave the sufferer spiritual consolation, and left, thinking that the patient’s chances in the next world were good. The minister had been gone about five minutes, when the sufferer turned to his wife and in a feeble voice suggested: “ You’d better send for the barber, Sarah, before I die. He sha’n’t get that $5 out of me. ” The gentleman finally recovered, contrary to expectations, and the barber now tells the story with great gusto.

Honora to Our Common Mother. According to Arabian tradition the mother of the human race is burled at Jiddah and her grave is marked by a small temple which is held by Mohammedans as being especially sacred. Every seven years the pious Ishmaelites make a pilgrimage to the supposed grave of our alleged common mother. The spot is surrounded by a high wall, and through a ciack in the rock roof of the little temple grows a gigantic palm. It is a most desolate-100 king spot and contrasts strongly with that delightful paradise pictured by Milton. On June 3, which is supposed to be the anniversary of the death of Abel, the doors of the temple remain open all night. The Arabs say that on that night the spirit of Eve laments the murder of her best beloved, and that awful cries of grief and despair ring from the tomb, transfixing with horror all who hear them.

Wonderful, Wonderful Salve. The boss liar now lives in Jerseyville, 111., and here is his latest effort, which he told to an admiring crowd the other day: “There was a man in Southern Illinois," said he, “who invented a salve which he claimed was just the thing for cuts. If you cut your finger off, apply the salve and the finger would soon grow out to its normal length. One of the residents of the town was somewhat skeptical, so he thought he would try it on his dog’s tail. He cut off the tall and applied the salve, when almost spontaneously it commenced growing, and in a few minutes was as long as ever. In the meantime his little boy had picked up the end of the tail and put on some salve, and both the boy and the man were very much surprised to see a full-sized dog grow out from the end of the tail. The father and his boy are now dead."

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