Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1883 — Page 7

A CURIOUS HOUSE.

The Narrowest Residence Ever Erected in the World. , [From the New York Evening Poet.] The narrowest house in this city may be seen at the northwest corner of Lex* ington avenue land Eighty-second street. When Lexington avenue was cut through some years ago, a strip of land five feet wide and 100 feet deep was all that was left of a certain lot belonging to a person who did not own the next lot on the street. The strip, while of little value by itself, would be valuable to the person owning the adjoining lot on Eighty-seeond street, because it . would not only allow him to build a house five feet wider, but would give him windows all along the side of his house on Lexington avenue. The two owners, however, could not agree as to terms, and a house was erected on the lot adjoining. the narrow strip. The owner of the latter had nothing to do but to abandon his lot, or build a house five feet wide upon it. The latter oourse was perhaps adopted because such a house would shut up all the side windows of the neighboring building, and considerably reduce its value. The new building is, therefore, 5 feet wide, 100 feet deep and four stories high. It is divided* into two houses, each 50 feet long, and the entrance doors are, of course, on the avenue, as there is no room for a door at either end of the building. The law allows a building at a corner of a street to have projecting bay-windows along the side, and, taking advantage of this circumstance, the architect had managed to plan a house*which, while in inside appearance, and probably very uncomfortable to live in, may find tenants. Without these bay windows, or square projections, running from the foundation to the roof, it would not have been possible to build a house at all, for no room would have been wider than three feet. Each house has, therefore, two bay-windows, in one of which are the stairs, and in the other one room about eight feet wide by fifteen feet long, upon each floor. The long passage between the stair well and the room is about three feet wide. Each house contains a kitchen eight by fifteen feet, and four rooms, each of the same size, but on different floors. There are also ingeniously-placed closets at each end of the building and under the stairs. If the object of the builder of these extraordinary houses was simply to shut out the light from his neighbor’s building, he would probably have accomplished the same end, at much less expense, by adopting Mr. George Kemp’s device of sheet-iron shields. Mr Kemp did not wish the occupants of the building in the rear of his house at No. 720 Fifth avenue to overlook his premises, and so he built an iron scaffolding in, his back yard, and placed iron shields against the obnoxious openings, shutting out air and light as* completely as a brick yrall would have done. This arrangement has been for years the source of no little commeijt from the neighbors and passers-by.

CHEESE MADE FROM BERRIES.

Nature has, says the London Lancet, it appears, provided an admirable substitute for rennet in the manufacture of cheese, the article being the berry of a plant known to botanists as withania coagulans. This shrub thrives in the Punjab and Trans-Indus territory, and has long been used by the Beloochees and Afghans to curdle milk. But its complete efficacy was not demonstrated until lately, when the berry was officially experimented with at a farm belonging to Sir James Ferguson, the present Governor of Bombay. The report published by the Government says that a complete success was achieved, a perfect curd being produced, and the cheese turning out excellent in every respect. The method of preparing the puneria—so is the berry called, from the Persian name of cheese—is to put some ounces into a small quantity of water, and to allow this to simmer by the side of a fire for twelve hours. At the end of that time about half a pint of the decoction will suffice to curdle fifty-five gallons of milk, the quantity of berries employed being two ounces.

It Is Just as Cheap.

It is just as cheap and cheaper to keep well than to remain in a state of ill health. You don’t see sensible, intelligent women stand back and hug their prejudices when a remedy for relieving female diseases is brought to their notlca No, sir! They try it lirst and pass their opinions afterward Every bottle of Dr. Guysofet's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla sold to a woman will prove its mer t as a reliever of those painful disorders incidental to female life. Try it Ask your drcggistto get it for you. A man writes to an cause he is so terribly short,” and gets in reply the heartless response: “Do as I do; stand upon a chair."

CHEAPER THAN DAYLIGHT.

A locomotive engineer running on the “Big J.'” route out of New Orleans was in the habit of rolling into the terminus of his run, three or four hours after sunrise, with the headlight of his engine brightly blazing, and his attention had been called to the fact several times by certain officials. Finally, the General. Superintendent tackled him, and said: “See here, haven’t you been on the road long enough to learn that you should put your headlight out after sun-up? We can’t stand no such expense as that, you know.” “Well,” replied the engineer, “that may be all right enough from your standpoint, Mr. Superintendent; but the cold facts are that, with such an infernal poor quality of oil as you fnrnish, it’s a blamed sight cheaper than daylight.”—Texas Siftings. A tourist leaning out of a nook, Fell cm his head near a brook, The hurt he received St. Jacobs Oil relieved, And he says it cured “like a book." Great oaks from little acorns spring, Great aches the little too-coms bring; But for every com That ever was bom, St. Jacobs Oil is just the thing.

THE CRUSHED TRAGEDIAN.

“O/by the way, Tom,” said an Austin lady to her husband just after breakfast, “be sure and bring home that new silk dress I selected yesterday, crushed strawberry, you know.” “Hark ye, Maria,” replied the affectionate and melo-dramatic Thomas, “methinks I now canst trace a close analogy between crushed strawberry and crushed pocket-books. Take that small burden oil thy mind and muse awhile, my dear.” —Texas Siftings.

The Gault House, Chicago.

No hotel in Chicago enjoys a better repu-, tation than the Gault House, “the old standard,” located within one block pf the Union depot It has lately been enlarged and largely refurnished It is located in the heart of the wholesale district, and street cars pass the doors every minute. From it the Exposition buildings, theaters, etc., can be reached in a few minutes’ walk. Every room is an outside one. The table is unsurpassed Elevator, bath-rooms and every modern convenience. Try the Gault when you visit Chicago. You will be pleased there A compositob who was puzzliqg over one of Horace Greeley’s manuscripts sagely and savagely observed: “If Belshazzar had seen this handwriting on the wall he would have been more ter. rified than he was.” *Dr. 8. B. Brittan says: “As a rule physicians do not, by their professional methods, build up the female constitution, while they seldom cure the diseases to which it is always liable in our variable climate and un ? der our imperfect civilization. Special remedies are often required to restore'crganic harmony and strengthen the enfeebled pow-' ers of womanhood; anjf’ fbr most of these we are indebted to persons outside of the medical profession. .Among the very be3t of these remedies I assign a prominent place to Mrs Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound" A little Scotch boy, being told that thuncerwas God's voice, asked in surprise, “Why, what makes Him speak so growly?” -#*“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy,” and, vice versa, a certain friend is infinitely letter than a doubtful enemy. 'I hus Kidney-Wort is an incomparably better friend to the human race than whole catalogues full of doubtful nostrums. It is an unfailing remedy for that tormenting disease, piles It moves the bowels gently and freely, and thus removes the cause. Do not fail to try it faithfully, either in dry or liquid form. A soft answer may turn away wrath, but it Js far safer to trust to the legs in case the other party is real mad Fob dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits and general debility in their various forms; also as a preventive against fever and ague, and other intermittent fevers, the *FerrcWphosphorated Elixir of Calisaya,” made dv Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York, and sola by all druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal “As we charged," says a war correspondent, “the bugle blew." It must have been a trumped-up charga Fabmington, HL— Dr. M. T. Gamble says: “I prescribe Brown’s Iron Bitters in my practice and it gives satisfaction." '-at Bow to destiny. One of these days destiny may be polite enough to. return the compliment. « Ladies and all suiferers from neuralgia, hysteria, and all kindred complaints, will find without a rival Brown’s Iron Bitters. Never say “Bo" to a goose; it is ungrammatical Say beau to the gander—belle to the goose. , “ Brown’s Bronchial Troches" are of great service in subduing Hoarseness. Love’s sacrifice—Buying your wife a sealskin sacque and wearing your 10-year-old overcoat another winter. Lyon’s Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners keep new boots and shoes from running over. Sold by shoe and hardware dealers.

CUTTING THE PRESIDENT'S TROUSERS.

“They say” that the Presidents idiosyncrasy is the cut of his trousers; that he had a tailor on from New Yoifc to cut him a pair, and was so pleased with the .immaculate fit of them that he made the man cut eight pairs of them before he left; also, that the material was first laid down on the floor, and then the President was laid down on it, and, when one side was out, the tailor deftly flopped him over as if he had been a griddle cakepand cut the other side.— New York World.

A Disabling Disease.

No disease which does not confine* nun to his bed so completely unfits him for business as dysiiepeia. When the stomach is foul the brain is always muddy and oonfused, and as the cares and anxieties of life ate a sufficient burden for the organ of thought to bear, without being tormented by the miseries bom of indigestion, it is highly desirable for the brain’s sake, as well as for the sake of every other portion of the system, that the disordered stomach should be restored with the utmost dispatch to a healthy, vigorous condition. This object can always be accomplished by a course of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the purest and best of vegetable specifics, which evacuates the morbid humors through the bowels, rouses and tones the torpid stomach and regulates* the liver, imparts firmness to the nerves and clears the sensorium of its mental cobwebs. Persons subject to attacks of indigestion, bilious headache, irregularity of the boweh, sickness at the stomach, or “the blues," should take the Bitters once or twice a day throughout the present season. A suBscBXBEK suggests that if a sewing circle is a “muliebrie resort” a political caucus is a homogeneous Fort Stevenson, Dakota Ter.—Rev. James McCarty says: “Brown’s Iron Bitters cured me of severe dyspepsia.”

CONUNDRUMS.

When is. a sailor not a sailor *? When he is a-board. Who may marry . many a wife and yet live single all his life ? A clergyman. When is a man not a man ? When he is a-shaving/ When is a ship.not a ship? When she is a building. What animals are the greatest gamblers? Sheep. They gambol in their youth, and the best of them fire black legs. How can a man make his coat last? By making his vest and pants first. How many wives does the marriage service allow? Sixteen. Four (for) better, four (for) worse, four (for) rich er, four (foi) perrer. tar With Diamond Dyes any lady can get as good results as the best practical dyer. Every dye warranted true to name and sample. The best time to offer your hand to a lady when she is getting out of an omnibus.

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