Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1896 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

| An exchange says a teaspoonful (of common salt to every gallon of kerosene will keep the lamps and oil stove from smokin", will prevent any odor from them, and will cause the oil stove to give a third l more heat; besides a lamp will | never explode when there is salt 1 salt in the oil. Those who are interested in clearing up and beautifying he Sayler cemetery, are requested to meet there Saturday, June 13th, 1896. Jeff. Smith. Capt.J. M Wasson is off on a short trip through Missouri and other western stages. Decoration Day was appropriately observed at this place, par-> ticipated in by a large number.— W B Austin, Esq, was orator of the day. Communion services at the Presbyterian church Sunday, June 7, at 10:30 a. m. Crumpacker received the republican -ongressional nomination. His majority was a little over onehalf of one vote. ——— ———— William L. Mewman, of Lafayette, will be a candidate before the Democratic nominating convention ot the Tenth district for the nomination for congressman from this district.—Lafayette Journal. Increasing trade ’•cquiies more shelving in Judg* Healy’s store. Suit er AKi. ht: “Come in boys. We can laundry for you all as well as one “boys.” The ladies of the Relief Corps desire to express their thanks to the Bands, Orders, as well as little children, who • o kindly assisted in the Decoration Day’exercises, and also to the ladies who trained the children so nicelv. , MARY BATES, President. Lula Huff, Secretary. Conntrv school exercises on a large sca.e will be held on Wednesday. June 10tb, it Valma, in Barkley township. Thev will be for the schools of Barkley, Gillam, Hanging Grove, Marion, Newton, Jordan and Union townships, and the graduates will be twenty-eight ir. number. The exercises will begin at 10:30 and continue into the afternoon. Everybody is invited to attend, and to bring their dinners and have a pionio in the grove. The exercises will comist of the essays of -he graduates, orations, declamations. music by Union, Hanging Grove and Bark ey glee clubs, and others, presentation of diplomas, <tc., <tc. Altogether it wil be a big day in the history of our township schools. It now trnnsp : res that those two fellows who tarried in our town some two weeks ago and whe claimed to be introducing a complexion beautifier, were none other than two saloon spotters, a° some of our boys here learned to their sorrow.—Morocco Courier. If a dish of cold wat ris kept in a coke box it wil> keep the cake fresh and nice. ThewaUi should be renewed every twenty four hours. Have you ever tried a hot pancake for an aching side or back? Mix flour and water together until vou have a thick batter, and cook on a het griddle with very little grease. Place it between thin muslin and apply to the aching place. A pancake applied to the base of the brain will often relieve a headache and is recommended for congestion ot the langs. The next Presbyterian General Assembly will convene at Winona Assembly grounds, Warsaw, Ind., in 1897.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. There are 1,500 different species oi Snakes in the world. Japan has a written history extending over 2,500 years. The famous pianist, Paderewski, gets 5250,000 for 100 concerts. The tea crop of the world is estimated as 456,000,000 pounds. For over 1,200 miles the Nile does not receive a single tributary stream. The 515,000 set of china in use at the White House contains 500 pieces. The street accidents of London amount to about 3,500 a year—nearly ten a day. The average w’hale measures from 50 to 65 feet in length apd is from 33 to 38 feet in diameter. The word “and” occurs 35,543 times in the Old Testament and 10,684 times in the New Testament It is said that the taste nerves are 2,000 times more sensitive to quinine than they are to sugar. Microscopists and entomologists say that the flea’s mouth is situated exactly between his fore legs. In some of the cantons of Switzerland ftll the dead, rich and poor, are buried at the public expense. There is enough iron in the blood of forty-two men to make a plowshare weighing twenty-four pounds. The platinum beds of the Ural Mountains are the only ones in the world in Which that metal is found in grains. The average age of a cat is 15 years) a dog 20 years; a horse 28 years. Elephants have been known to live 400 years.