People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — Notice to the Public. [ARTICLE]

Notice to the Public.

Owing to the extreme pressure of business connected with my restaurant and boarding house I have had no time for writing a notice. Suffice it to suy that I am comfortably Bituated and my house is filled with boarders and I will let them do the advertising. They say our “soup” is like kissing u pretty girl, takes a long time to got enough, The patronage of the public generally solictod and I will spare no time or pains for the stpplying of their wants or comforts. Yours to serve, J, L. Foster. Half block south of depot.

Frank Leslie, « Popular Monthly is the Hist of the Christmas magazines to appoar, and it is in every respect a beautiful number. Under the title “A Magic Island,” Beatrix B, de Luna writes entertainingly of the picturesque Catalinas of California; Cornell University described by Herbert Crombie Howe' in the second paper of the profusely illustrated series on “American Universities and Colleges;” Major-General O. O. Howard tells something of the “Character and Ca npaigns of General Robert E, Lee,” and among the illustrations to this article is the lastportaitr of the great Confederate; there is an interesting paper on pottery by Lawrence Mendenhall; an excellent Christmas story is contributed by Margaret E. Sangster; in “Canoeing Down the Rhine,” Rochefart Calhoun takes the readers pleasantly from Basel to Heidelberg; Francis Wilson’s new play ‘Half a King, is deqpribed and pictured with portraits and views of the principal scones; Varina. Anne Jefferson Davis, the “Daughter ot the Confederacy,” has something to say of the preposed Battle Abbey of the ciouth; and therfe are numerous short stories arid poems, andj an attractive young folks’ department, More than the usual one hundred illustrations are given in this number.