Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1882 — The Price of a Belt. [ARTICLE]

The Price of a Belt.

A young married lady was staying at the eountry house of a noble duke. She so repeatedly expressed her ardent desire to own a Norwegian belt, she so pathetically deplored the inefficiency of her pin, money, the stinginess of her husband, that her host, before the visit was over, begged her to order for herself the trinket she required—a matter probably of eight or ten guineas—and to accept it as a remembrance of the pleasant hours spent together under the same roof. The lady blusliingly but unheaaitatingly accepted, and forthwith on her rqturn to London, went to Bond street and gave her orders with such throughness and minuteness of detail that among the adjuncts to the belt was to be seen a silver-handled, sil-ver-feruled, silver-monogrammed umbrella. These etceteras run up the bill to $lO7. The total was too muclf for the Duke’s gaJantry. Angry at this extension of the contract, or at the.magnitude of the disbursement, he deemed in incumbent on his good breeding to forwafd the bill to the husband, with a polite note informing him that his boundless regard for the wife precluded him from offering to her a present of marketable value, as he would thereby encroach on conjugal privileges The woman did not storm, the Duke did not blush, the wife had her costly toy, the husband paid, the world talked. All is well that ends well.

Washnmo* D. C_ M»y 15th, 1880 Oimim—Haring been a fnfferer for a long time from narrou prostration and genera) debility, I was adrised to try Hop Bitters. I hare taken one bottle and I hare been rapidly getting better erer* since, and I think it the best medicine I erer used. I am now gaining strength and appetite, which was all gone, ana I was in despair until I tried y«or festers. I am now well, able to go about and do my own work. Before taking it I was oomplet#ly prostrated.

MRS. MARY STUART.

Evictions of tenants for non-pay-ment of rent have been resumed in many parts of Ireland.