Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — [Louisville (Ky.) Commercial.] Steamboat Life and Its Dangers. [ARTICLE]

[Louisville (Ky.) Commercial.] Steamboat Life and Its Dangers.

In a recent interesting article upon the palmy days of steamboat life on the Mississippi, in which special mention is made of Capt. Chas. N. Coni, of Louisville, and the statement of his cure after yean of suffering with rheumatism by St Jacobs Oil, one of our exchanges says: Bm* indorsements coming from our own people, leave no doubt that the em ph atic claims made in the interest of St Jacobs Oil are fully justified. Vy > Geo. McGewon. of Cincinnati, aged 90, was drowned while bathing In Chatetau - qua Lake.

The meanest man lives in Crawfords* vine, mu* no scoie ail me wood his band over to ’spend the evening. An Irish gentleman having purchased an alarm-clock, an acquaintance arirad him what he intended to do with it “Och,” answered he, “share I’ve nothin’ to do bat pull the string and wake meeelf.” “What did von do then?” asked Col. George, after badgering a witness in the Lowell railroad case, at Salem. “I went to the rescue like a lawyer for a man’s pocket-book* replied the witness, and the retort was enjoyed all around. The day before a Turkish girl is married she ia taken to the bath by her lady friends, and lumps of sugar are broken over her head as a forecast of the sweets of matrimony. A year or so afterward her husband breaks the whole sugarbowl over her head. One of the saddest lingual mistakes on record occurred a few evenings ago in a local prayer meeting. The bulk of the audience consisted of elderly females. A worthy printer, with more frith than oral rhetoric, arose to speak, with the remark that he probably could not do as well “as the old hands about him.” The elderly females, being hard of hearing, understood him to say “old hens,” and he was promptly hustled out We can readily believe this story, which is told by an exchange, except where it is stated that the party at the prayer meeting was a printer. A St. Petersburg correspondent says: Pel egraphic reports received at the ministry of the interior from governors of forty nine provinces show that the harvest throughout Russia is poor.