Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The finest line of box, calf and winter tan shoes for ladies and gents, also the best stock of boots ever brought to this city, at J udge Taley’s, tine “fine ould Irish gin* who will take great plea* sarein showirg them to yon. We are prepared to do all kinds of plain and ornamental frescopanting in oil or water. We will take yonr old paper off and make four room clea 1 and healthy (yon know paper is not healthy ) as idheap as yon eau pnt on good pa* per. It you want your furniture renewed, floor painted, or colors compounded, hard ot soft wax fins ish, call on W. J. Miller, House, Sigß and Decorative Pointer. — Studio in oW band hall over post ; ts

"For Headache I don’t believer there ever was so good a pill as Ayer’s. I have been a victim of terrible headaches, and never found anything to relieve me so quickly as AYER'S PILLS" ~ CL. NEWMAN. Dbg Spur, Va.

- HISTORICAL. Ia the light of history Napoleon 111. becomes a curious phenomenon. But his morose Idealism proved to‘France *he greatest misfortune that ever visited tt Until use that country wad furrouuded by nothing but inconsequential neighbors. At the downfall ft Napoleon It touched elbows with two powers of magnitude. To the last of his reign Napoleon nourished the. illusion that at Magenta and Solferlno he had procured for France a mighty and a faithful friend. The phrase, “Driving a coach and six through an act of Parliament,” occurs in the “Memoirs of Ireland,” published anonymously in 1716, but commonly attributed to Oldmlxon. In speaking of Stephen Rice, who was made Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer by James It In 1686, and was removed by William 111. in 1690, Oldmlxon says: “He distinguished himself by his inveteracy against the Protestant Interest and the settlement of Ireland, having been often heard to say before he was judge, ‘that he would drive a coach and six bosses through the Act of Settlement’ ” This date (circa 1686) Is at least a century earlier &an the date popularly assigned to the origin of the phrase. Coltsfoot or the leaves of the lettuce, being slightly narcotic, would form a harmless make believe for the good folk who persuade themselves that •Mr could not sleep a wink were they deprived of their evening comfort. Ages ago both Greeks and Romans, according to Dioscorides and Pliny, found comfort in smoking through a reed or pipe the dried leaves of coltsfoot which relieved them of old coughs and difficult breathing. We can picture the legionary In Britain’s bleak atmosphere, while pacing the Roman wall, trying to console himself In his lonely vigil with the vapor from his “elphin pipe,” fragments of which have been found among the ruins of those early memorials to the Boots’ persistent determination to travel southward. And as to the lettuce, it has been famous since the time of Galen (Claudius Gateaus), who asserts that he found relief from sleeplessness by taking It at sight noser beef, or fowl, will be muck nicer if they are kept oovered while roasting; it keeps them moist; uncover Just time enough to let brown

ILMiART unu« miamH wa ea w. n. fkatt, s m >, julkuaux. an. If you want to raise colts that will be the best for general purpose, o. that will bring the highest price on the market, go to the,Lafayette Import ing Co., 33 North Third Street, and see their fine lot of German Coach Stai ions, just imported, or if you want to buy a stallion on terms that he wili pay himself out, call on or address THE LAFAYETTE IMPORTING CO Lafayette, lnd.’

F. A WOOD! N &GO, jEßeeal-H]steate; A.g©xrte Foresman, « r No. 76: 280 acres, finely improved, 5 miles southwesl Rensselaer; a very desirabl l ! : a rm; will be sold on favorah terms at 145 per acre. 78: 160 acres, well improved, 2 miles from town; long time 84: 320 acres, unimproved, one mile from er. town; f 0 mil southeast of Chicago; price $lO per acre; will take 1600 in r ood trade. 86; 160 acres, all fenced, town site on the farm, large Mini, store building, hay scales, etc.; on 3-1 ry., a bargain a* f2Q per acre- ->• 89: ®O. acres, unimproved, two and one-half miles fmi, town; price 812.50 per acre; long time at 6 per cent, interest. 96: acres, onimproved, two miles from town; $lO per acr< on good terms. 98: 400 acres, unimproved, 4 miles from two railways; a basgain at $lO peg acre.