Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Valuable Voice. There are heights to be reaohed In ev. ery profession, and It is not to be wondered at if those of his own profession are considered superior to those of any other by the enthusiastic artist. Martin, the popular Frenoh singer, found food for reflection in an experience whioh he had with a cab-driver. The incident Is related by the author of ‘Souvenirs d’un Chanteur. ” Martin had a voice of great compass and most agreeable sound, of whioh he was deoldedly proud. He had a weakness for drawing out compliments upon it. One day, as he was being driven through the streets of Paris in a cab, he saw some one passing carelessly in front of the cab, and in danger of being run over. “Whoa!" he cried in his most sonorous tones. The coachman turned around exoitedly. ‘O, monsieur!" he cried, ‘what a beautiful 'whoa!' Ah, If I only had a voice like that!" “Well, what would you do if you had?" asked Martin, with a smile, believing that he had been recognized, and pleased at the idea that his reputation extended even to the drivers in the streets. “What would I do, monsieur? Faith, I should beoome the first ooaohman in Paris!"

House-Cleaning Wore Him Out. The man of the house took to the sofa in the sitting-room, with a newspaper, directly after breakfast, while his wife went on with the houße-cleanlng. She was dismantling the front room, and while he pursued the sporting column she carried past him, in turn, seven chairs, three tables, a desk, four footstools, all of the piotures, a piano stool, a bookoase and the rest of the furniture. Then she lugged in a pair of steps and a big pail of water and began to dean. “Maria, do you want any assistance?** said the man just then, rising and folding his newspaper. “Not lust yet, dear,” said Maria. “Well, then, I think I'll leave you," said he, and he started for the offioe. On the way down he told three men that if there was anything that wore him to the skin and bone it was that confounded house-cleaning. Said he: "We are in the midst of it now, and I telliyou I’m about used up."—St, Louis POM Dispatch. How Rosewood Received Its Name. Many people suppose that rosewood takes its name from its color, but this is a mistake. Rosewood is not red, nor yellow, but almost blaok. Its name comes from the faot that when first out It exhales a perfume similar to that of a rose, and although the dried rosewood of oommerce retains no trace of this early perfume, the name lingers as a relic of the early history of the wood.

They Must Drink. Bats mb be driven out of any house by depriving them of water. They can live almost indefinitely without food, and when hard pushed will not hesitate to eat eaoh other, but no rat oan go twenty-four hours without drink, and if every possible means of obtaining water is taken from them they will desert the vicinity. These Are Fine Threads. If your nerves were steady enough to admit handling the silkworm’s threads, and you were to take a carpenter’s rule and lay such threads side by side until they covered the space of an inch, you would find, after you had completed the task, that you had handled exactly 1,009 threads. A Spider’s Web Newspaper. Among recent novelties that of a newspaper printed on the web of a sacred white spider is chronicled. It Is a sheet about 11x14 inches, contains two columns of matter, including an English story, and Is excellently printed. Among what mav be called fancy metal gallium is the most costly, it being quoted at $l4O per gramme. A document envelope which worke like a telescope, adjusting Itself to\>n« paper or to fifty, is a recent invention. Essen ex of cinnamon, used as a spray, is to be very useful in driving cut malaria from hospitals and sick jrooms. is Is stated that there are 72,000 pianos made annually in America, and that three pounds of steel wire is used for A Hiowii paper weight, having a center pieoe ribbed on the bottom so that it remains In place when •used on a slanting surface, is a reoent Th* band saw is fast superseding tht circular saw for all kinds of work. The latest application is made by the tailors, who are using it with great snooese foi