Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1883 — FIGURES LIE. [ARTICLE]

FIGURES LIE.

Says the Graphic: “Out of an estimated population in the world of SBOO,000,000 people, 250,000,000 prefe their meat well done, 300,000,000 like it best rare, while the remaining 250,000,000 are not particular. ” Figures all wrong. At least 400,000,000 are bound not to be satisfied with it, anyhow.— Boston Post.

All the Asian authorities agree that if a profane skeptic should undertake to chop off or twist off the sacred tail of a genuine white elephant he would meet with sudden death. A like divinity doth hedge a mule.

*Many a sickly woman, whose sad experience had demonstrated alike the failure of conceited doctors and poisonous drugs, has obtained a new lease of life for a, few dollars’ worth of the Vegetable Compound and has gone on her way rejoicing and praising Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn, The matinee masher at the theater is less useful than the potato-masher at home, and often is no prettier. Liver d seises, headache and constipation, caused by'bad digestion, quickly cured by Brown's Iron Bitters. It takes about 250 bushels of Irish potatoes to make a ton of starch. AS*The Diamond Dyes for family use have no equal All popular colors easily dyed, fast and beautiful Ten cents a package. Cattle trains should not be inn without cow-catchers. “Rough on Rats”-—Clears out rats, mice, flies, roaches, bed-bugs, ants, vermin, chipmunks. 15c.