Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — GEO. AUGUSTUS SALA. [ARTICLE]

GEO. AUGUSTUS SALA.

George Augustus Sala, the well known English writer, on his last Australian trip, wrote as follows to the The London Daily Dispatch: “I especially have a pleasant remembrance of the ship s doctor-a very experienced maritime medico indeed, who tended me most kindly during a horrible spell of bronchitis and spasmodic asthma, provoked by the sea fog which had swooped down on us just after we left San Francisco. But the doctor’s prescriptions and the increasing warmth of temperature as we neared the Tropics and in particular, a couple of Allcock’s Poeous Plasters clapped on—one on the chest and another between the shoulder blades - soon set me right.” A Maine genius has discovered that spruce sawdust is an excellent substitute for saud in making common mortar for plastering houses. He has used it in making a house in Greenville, and other masons in the State are experimenting with it. * .