Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — Health Before Comfort. [ARTICLE]

Health Before Comfort.

Walk. It costs nothing. Fill the lungs, expand the chest, straighten the spine, throw back the shoulders, stretch the limbs, swing the arms. In doing this every physical organ becomes naturally invigorated, and body and mind will soon acknowledge the benefit so simply attained. - Beware of too much comfort, and do not despise that exercise which, for man as for beast, whatever its condition may be, is best. Walk; stroll. Avoid chairs, seek the air, and find in it medicine for the body better than drugs.— New York Herald. ; I . . Van Dieman’s Land, the largest island to the south of Australia, is rapidly becoming noted for the quality and extent of its tin supplies. Four years ago the value of its exports of tin or ore was $35,000, while last year they amounted to nearly $1,500,000. A tin mountain on the west coast produces about twen-ty-five per cent, of tin; but the existence of solid seams of the metal, traversing the mountain several feet in depth and width, has been demonstrated. Some nuggets, weighing several hundred weight each have been found, yielding nearly eentr-per cent, of pure metal. A wife full of truth, innocence, and love is the prettiest flower that a man can wear next his heart