Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — Japanese Sabers. [ARTICLE]

Japanese Sabers.

Neither Sheffield nor Birmingham, with all their skill, is able to turn out a sword-blade which can begin to compare with the wonderful sabers of JapaD. A common feat for a Japanes3 soldier is to cut a pig in two at a single blow, and I have seen bars of lead, and even of-iron, divided'-by these weapons without a notch or imperfection being visible on tho blade.— St. Louis GlobeDcmot rat. “A most extraordinary and absolute cure for rheumatism and other bodily ailments is St. Jacobs Oil,” says Hon. James Harlan, ex-Vice Chancellor, Louisville, Ky. The Epnlones were members of one of the four great religious corporations of Borne, originally composed of three persons, but afterward increased to seven, whose chief duty consisted in preparing a sumptuous banquet for Jupiter and the twelve gods upon occasions of public rejoicing or calamity, when the statues of these deities were placed on couches in front of taoles spread w th delicacies which the Epulones afterward consumed. The law can never make a man honest; it can only make him very uncomwhen he is dishonest.