Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1875 — Are Advertisements Read. [ARTICLE]

Are Advertisements Read.

The election in Ohio and lowa will take place one week from next Tuesday. The prospects are good for Republican victories. . The Pennsylvania Democracy have declared for inflation, and the New York Democratic platform demands a return to specie payments, Secretary Delano has finally sent in his resignation as Secretary of the Inte- ( rior, which the President has accepted to take effect October 1. Old Independence Hall at Philadelphia is to have a new bell for use at the National Centennial. Alcneeley and Kimberly of Troy are making the tintinnabulator, and it is to weigh 13,000 pounds. Dr. Louis A. Boswell, of Alabama, claims to have invented a practicable flying machine which he describes as a fish that swims in the air, equipped with the power to drive and guide itself through the medium in which he floats, just as the natural fish, by the use of his fins and tail and the gyrations of its body, drives and guideshimself through the medium in which he floats. A Tennessee paper announces the death of Mr. Slusher, and says: “He was only nineteen year? old, and when young had a very severe attack of rheumatism, ■which drew him out of shape. If Mr. Slusher had not been a cripple he would lave been nine feet high. His boot was •eighteen inches long, and one of his hands was about the size of four ordinary ones. He could sit in a chair and pick up anything three foet from him. He measured seven and a half feet around the ■chest.”.

The following appeared in the LaPorte Chronicle under the above caption, and it may be of benefit to some of the readers of the Republican. Hence we give it a place in our columns: The advertisements are read more than many persons suppose. A very distinguished man recently said that he never read anything else in a newspaper but the advertisements. By them he could ascertain the size of the town, who were doing the business, what men stood at the head of the various trades and professions; could in short, get a more correct idea of the business life and enterprise of the town than he could obtain in any ether way. And there is truth in bis words, and wisdom also. Business men make a great mistake when they suppose that advertisements are not read, and on the other hand, if there are any who do mot read them, we can assure them that they lose one of the best parts of the paper, that which conveys as much local information as any other.