Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — Queer Methods of Composition. [ARTICLE]

Queer Methods of Composition.

Different literary men have different methods of composition. M. Theophile Gautier, like the poet of society, could “reel it off for hours together.” But he was so bored by the daily round, the common task, that he used three inks —red, black and blue—promising himself a little treat, and saying ‘‘Now, when you have finished this page, you shall have a turn at the red ink.” He added: “That helps me to cheat the tedium of putting black on white forever.” M. Paul de Saint-Victor, on the other hand, at least according to M. Alidor Delzant, wrote in a very odd way. He did not reel it off. When he had to “do” a new play he collected, very properly, all the books bearing on the subject. Then he took a sheet of paper and threw onto that phrases and “mots-images,” separated by spaces of blank. Then into these blanks he introduced other words that seemed necessary for the harmony of the vsentence, and finally he packed it all up in his article and went to press.—Saturday Review . A leading real -estate agent and private banker, Mr. Ira Brown, Chicago, 111., writes: “1 feel it my duty to say of St. 'Jacobs Oil that I lay on my back three months with rheumatism. I tried it, was cured, and have never been troubled since.”

Of the present destroyers of the Indians, according to Dr. Washington Matthews, the chief is consumption. Census leturns show that while the death-rate among Europeans is 17.74 per thousand, and that among Africans is 17.28-, the rate among the Indians is no less than 23.fi; and that while among the whites 16G deaths in the thousand are from consumption, and among the negroes 18fi, there are 286 among the Indians. The influence of civilization has greatly increased the* consumption rate among the Indians, the effect seemiDg to be partly due to change of diet, and partly to causes not yet understood. Mr. T. J. Morphy, 61 Debavoice place. .Brooklyn,. N.Y-,.saiß: “ 1 was affiicted-.with sciatic ihenmntism and found tit. Jacobs Oil very efficacious.” The Profile is a huge ' and very interesting rock conformation upon the side of Profile Mountain in the Franconia Range (White Mountains), New Hampshire. From a certain point of view at a distance it bears a wonderful resemblance to the outline of a human face. This remarkably complete and distinct profile is nearly 1,500 feet above the little, lake below it, and is from sixty to eighty feet in length. It is also popularly known as the Old Man of the Mountain. . Use the great specific for “cold in head,” and catarrh—Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.