Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A Texan Echniocerus. The cactus was found in ths most wildly picturesque spot imaginable, immediately upon the face of a rocky bluff some thirty feet high; great bunches of it, weighing, perhaps a hundred pounds, growing from a tiny crevice with eeemingly nothing to live upon save faith and a quart of leaf mold. The blossoms are large, a gorgeous, glowing crimson, and, together with the canary-colored flowers of».the Optunia and creamy white bells of the Yucca with which the bluff was covered, made it a thing of beauty never to be forgotten.— Cor. Floral Instructor. Chapped Hands, Face, Pimples, and rough Skin, cured by using Junipeb Tab Soap, mads by Caswell, Hazard Co.. New York. “What do you mean, you rascal, by spilling my cofToe all over racy” shouted an enraged passenger. “Never mind, air,” protested tbe waiter, "I'll get you some more, air.” \ ■ Mit. Oliver Mvers, o> I ronton. 0., 6ays: “Samaritan Servme cured me ol central debitty.” Ip thev take the tax off whisky It will go down. The kind they make now shows an occasional disposition to come up. “It quiets the patient and ult.mately cures him.” A late encomium on Samar,tan Xervinei Sojte one who believes that “ brevity Is the soul of wit'"Writes, “ Don’t eat Q cumbers, they’ll W yon Up.** ' . First effectual, then good to take, then cheap— Pise's Cure for Consumption.