Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1887 — The Practice of Economy. [ARTICLE]

The Practice of Economy.

People of moderate means are obliged to practice economy in obtaining the necessities of life, and those in ally wish to obtain the full worth of their money. A proper quantity and quality of reading matter, in these days, is most assuredly to-be classed among the necessities; then how to obthis cheaply is a desideratupi. The Chicago Ledger fills the want for a first-class family story paper better than any other published in the AVest, and at half the price of the Eastern publications of the same grade. Its ..corps of contributors has been largely reinforced,i and articles from Rev. H. W. Thomas and Prof. David Swing upon timely topics are' given weekly. Its stories are of a high order. Send for sample to the Ledger, 271 Franklin street, Chicago. Only $1.50 per year.

Important. When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, expressage, and $3 carriage hire, and stopattho <»rpn<l Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted up at a qost of one million dollars,, SI and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied witu the .boat. Hors» cars, stages, Anu elevated raiL rod to al depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city.. . Stamp-Collectors in France. The mania for collecting postage stamps seems to be gaining more ground tflan ever in France, Among the most famous collectors is a man who has over 1,000,000 stamps preserved in 130 richly.bound volumes, and another who keeps two clerks employed in classifying and arranging his enormous collection. Added to this there are in Paris about 150 wholesale firms employed in the trade, and one of the best known of these has lately offered from £2O to £4O for certain stamps of the year 1836. Tuscan postage stamps dated before 18(10 will be paid for at the rate of £6 each, while stamps from Mauritius for the year 1817 fetch £BO, aud French stamps of 1849 are quoted at £1 each.— The Argonaut. A physician says: “When a teaspoonful of warm honey is taken every fifteen, twenty, or thirty min nt. s, it has a surprising effect on < ut. rrh. Every family should have a gl. ss of pure honey in the house, in order at once, after catching cold, to be able to use some.” * A clock pendulum at Avignon, France; the longest known, measures sixty-seven feet, carries a weight of 132 pounds, and swings through an arc of between nine and ten feet in Ai seconds. ■ Mb. Geo. Deuterman, New York City, suffered nearly a month with a severe cough, and, having tried several remedies without relief, finally used Red Star Cough Cure, which, be says, proved “speedy and effectual.”