Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Austin G. K. Hollingsworth, will loan you money on personal mortgage, -r chattel security, for long or short time at local bank rates. These loan s can be paid back at any time, and are more desirale than bank loans, because interest is rebated.— We have unlimited capital and can accommodate everybody

Horseflesh is dearer than beef or mutton in Paris. One pound a day is the amount of bread allowed an English soldier. The “salt bath” is becoming very popular in New York and other cities. “Man’s inhumanity to man” gives the oolice force employment —Texas Siftings. Once in every eight years all locks on the United States mail bags are changed to insure safety. I Logansport is preparing to celebrate the Fourth of July in style. Senator Turpie will deliver the oration. A Bombay newspaper says that if plenty of castor oil plants are grown about a nouse mosquitoes will avoid the place. The recent rain in Nebraska was estimated to be worth $15,000,000, or $2,75 for each man, woman and child in the State. The earnings of the Monon for the month of May were $284,471, an increase of $30,005 over the same period of last year. A three-thousand-dollar table son ex. hibition at the World’s Fair. It is made of metals found in the vicinity of the Santa Fe. Jmdge Winfield, the well-keown Logansport jurist, has been retained in the defense of ex-Governor Chase for embezzlement. A dessert spoonful of lemon juice diluted with double the quantity of water, taken six successive mornings, will counteract bilious tendencies. If a shelf in the closet is infested with red ants, carpet it with flannel and the tiny insects will not attempt to invade that limited precinct.

William Douglas and wife of Lanark, Scotland, were born on the same day and hour, married at nineteen, lived together eighty years and died on the same day. Cinderella’s real name, it seems, was Rhodope, as she was a beautiful Egyptian maiden who lived 670 years before the common era and during the reign of Psammetious, one of the twelve kings of Egypt. Caller—Be jaberg, yez got full pretty early in th’ day, Finnegan. Finnegan— Yis; I wanted a bottle to git tome medicine in, an’ imptied me whisky-bottle, an’ now I sale so much better I don’t want th’ medicine.—[Puck. PEND twelve[cents in postage stamps to u 39 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C., and you will receive four copies of Kate Field’s Washington, containing matter of special interest. Give name and address, and say where you saw this adveitisement. An Irish sergeant was drilling a squad of militia recruits, whose ideas of marching in line were altogether original. Getting utterly disgusted at their irregularity he bawled: “Halt! Just come out and look at yoursilves. It’s a foine line you’re making, isn’t it!"—London TidBits. . : During the first rehearsal in the Lyceum Theater, in London, of “Othello,“ in which Mr. Booth was to appear with Mr. Irving and Miss Terry, the latter said to the Au erican actor: “Do you know, Mr. Booth, that I just hated you when you firs came to London?* “Indeed! and why so?“ asked Mr Booth. (“Because “ replied Miss Terry, pointing with both hands in the direction of Mr. Irving, and choking with emotion, “because I thought you bad come to dethrone my god.” A'young African, fresh from the rural districts, was being interviewed a few days a o by her prospective mistress with a view t.o finding out her cap .bilities as housemaid. Among other things, it having been mentioned that waiting ni»on the table would be included in the duties, the girl suddenly interrupted with the announcement’ Well, if you does vourowc reachin’ and st retchin’ I’ll come for $6 a month, but if I got to do yer reaehin’ and stretchin’ fur yer, I axes sß.’’ —Kate Field’s Washington.

JAMES BARKER’S SUCCESSOR, Frank Reed, first assistant general passenger agent of the New Menon, has been appointed general passenger and ticket agent or that line to succee I James Barker, who goes with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. Mr. Reed was born in Lafayette, and, along with E. O. McCormick, sold papers streets, and finally became a “news agent” on the ipad. In 1885 he resigned as business manager of the Indianapolis Journal to go into the railroad business. He is highly spoken of as a passenger man. Mr. Reed is the second Indianapoli3 newspaper man who has become a general passenger agent. The other is W. H. Fisher of the Hocking Valley.—lndianapolis News. Crown Point Star: On Tuesday Elmer and J. Dwiggins and a committee from each of the banks at Hebron and Lowell met in Crown Point to try and make some settlement with the depositors, but the deal failed to be consummated and the Dwiggins’ were worsted in the transaction. It seems they brought with them a satchel in which they had SSO 000 worth of contracts from purchasers of Griffith lots which they wanted to turn over under certain conditions which seemed to give them the long end of the whiffletrees. — This the depositors would not do, and Sheriff Freidrich was given a pointer to gobble up the satchel containing the contracts if he had an opportunity. The attachment covered all those papers but they kept them in hiding all day. Finally when the jig was up and nothing done t hey went o the depot and took the evening train—and so did Sheriff Freidrich. There he espied the handbag which he took without ceremony ana got off at Rush and returned home On the dummy with the prize. This haul is supposed to leave the creditors in some better shane lor they now have control of alljpaymentsof these lots, if the purchasers continue to pay.— About s3o,i 00 is due the two banks and if matters go as believed they will, they will get a considerable of it b ck. That Dwiggins* had undoubtedly forgotten the old story the spider told the fly or they would have left their papers at home until they had a cinch.