Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — An Alluring Advertisement. [ARTICLE]

An Alluring Advertisement.

An advertisement in a Boston paper in 1742 offered for sale: “The very best Negro Woman in this Town, who has had the Small-Pox and tho Measles; is as hearty as a Horse, is as brisk as a Bird, and Avill work like a Beaver. ” In these days, when the ladies of Boston are so much troubled about their “help,” many of them would doubtless be glad to buy a woman like that. —New Ledfoi d ■Standard. Perhaps there is not the remotest corner or inlet of the minute blood vessels of the body that does not feel some wavelet from the great convulsion produced by hearty laughter shaking the central man. The blood moves more lively; probably its chemical, electric, or vital conditions are distinctly modified. It conveys a different impression to all the organs of the body, as it visits them oo that particular mystic journey, when the man is laughing, from what it does at other times; and thus if is that a good laugh lengthens a man’s life by corn-eying a distinct and additional to the vital force. The time may come when physicians, attending more closely than they do now to the innumerable subtle influences which the soul exerts upon its tenement of clay, shall prescribe'to the torpid patient, “So many peals of laughter, to be undergone at such and such a time,” just as they do that for more objectionable prescriptions—a pill, or an electric or galvanic shock. —Scientific Amiri an. The use of steam as a disinfectant is now being recognized as a success by sanitarians. The high degree of moist heat attained is in itself as reliable and complete an agent of disinfection as could be desired. It is intended to fix the minimum temperature for fumigation and disinfection at 235 degrees Fabr. ; which Avill certainly preclude the necess tv of an additional agent in certain cases. SIO,OOO were spent in eighteen yearn by Prof. C. A. Donaldson, of Louisville, Ky., in trying to get rid of his rueumatism, bnt he found no relief until at last he used St. Jacobs Oil, which speedily cored him.

1 Important. When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, expreseage, and #3 carriage hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot Cl 3 rooms, fittod up at a cost of one million ioliars, |1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best Horse cars, stages, ana elevated railroad to all depots. Families can liye better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city.