Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1875 — The Biggest Bet of the Missourl State Fair. [ARTICLE]

The Biggest Bet of the Missourl State Fair.

Five thousand dollars against a two-thou-sand dollar wager was offered by the Proprietors of the Jilz Well Auger that it would bore a hole of the some size faster and easier than any other well auger on exhibition, and we learn that thia is a standing offer for one year. Who Will accept it? See their advertisement in another column. The season for coughs and colds is rapidly approaching, and everyone should be prepared, to check the first symptoms, as a cough contracted between now and Christmas frequently lasts all winter. There is no better remedy than Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. For all diseases of tbe throat and lungs it should be used internally and externally. Lung fever, common cold, catarrhal fever and nasal discharge of a brownish color in horses may be checked at once by liberal use of Hheridan'i Cavalry Condition Powders. When you go to Chicago stop at the “ Barnes House,” corner of Randolph ami Canal streets, The fare is excellent and everything in the house is new- Only $1.50 to *2.00 per day for transient. Personal.— Jud. 8. Bird. —l certify that I have used DR. SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR in my family with complete satisfaction.” Rev. J. R. Felder.—" My wife and self have used the REGULATOR for years, and I certify to its great virtues.” The most dangerous mines in the United States are in Schuylkill County, Pa., one man being killed there for every 35,000 tons mined. One man is killed iff England for every 138,000 tons mined, one in Pennsylvania for every 88,000 tons, and one in Ohio for every 133,000 tons. This destruction of human life ought always to be considered when making complaints about dear fuel. No doubt the prices often charged for coal are too dear, but the excess of charges is on the part of those who own the mines, and never on that of those who work them. Doughnuts.—-Oiie cup of sugar, one cup of cream, or, if you don’t have it, take a cup of sweet milk, add a lump of butter the size of an egg, one teaspoonful oi cream-tartar, half a one <rfsoda; flour enough to roll. The net gain of the population of California by immigration during the first eight months of the present year is esti mated at 50.000.