Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — House-Cleaning Wore Him Out. [ARTICLE]

House-Cleaning Wore Him Out.

The man of the house took to the sofa in the Bitting-room, with a newspaper, directly after breakfast, while his wife went on with the house-cleaning. 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 pictures, a piano stool, a bookcase 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 just yet, dear,” said Maria. “Well, then, I think I'll leave you,” said he, and he started for the office. 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 tell (You I’m about used up.”—St Louis Port Dispatch. Among what may be called fancy metal gallium is the most costly, it being quoted at $l4O per gramme. A document envelope which works like a telescope, adjusting itself to one paper or to fifty, is a recent invention. Essence of cinnamon, used as a ry, Is to be very useful in driving malaria from hospitals and sick rooms. It is stated that there are 72,000 piaBoe made annually in America, ahd that three pounds of steel wire is used for each instrument. A nicked paper weight, having a rubber center piece ribbed on the bottom so that it remains in place when usedon a slanting surface, is a reoent gwtyioatfamtomade bytteuitop.