Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1889 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PUBLIC i>ALE. Farming Implements and Horses. On Saturday, March 2, A. will make a public sale of two full sets of farming implements, almost new and in good condition; also several head of work and driving horses. Sale to take place in wagon shed, in the rear of the Nowels building, Rensselaer, Ind. All kinds of rocking chairs at Williams’.

Charmed by a Rattlesnake. Andy Austin, a 16-year-old lad, was released from a painful position in front of a gun store on Wall street, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Austin had remained in a fixed position for over an hour before it was discovered that he was powerless to move. His face seemed to be glued to the window, lie was noticed from inside the store by the glassy stare of his eyes, which seemed bursting from the sockets His nose was flattened and his mouth firmly set against the glass. Inside the window was a big rattlesnake on exhibition. The snake had coiled, himself, raised his head and charmed the boy through the glass. Austin was pulled away from the window and taken into a drug store. It was half an hour before he could speak. r The Road to n Man’s Heart. ° A girl in town married a very particular and exacting man six months ago. Her girl friends predicted at the time that she would fail to satisfy him, and consequently they would not live together six months. That period having elapsed and there being no evident signs ’of any separation between the happy pair, the girl friends felt called upon to visit the young wife and ask her how she managed to please the man who had never been known to be pleased before Mustering all their impudence they called upon her in a body and asked her for her secret. “What is the receipe?” Xhey asked. “We may .need it.” “Well, I’ll tell you,” sne replied, “if you’ll never tell—feed the brute. ”

Enouirh Caplial. It is a mark of true commercial genius to begin operations upon a small capital in money, and a large capital in enterprise and confidence. A gentleman going home one evening in a large city was accosted by a ‘ little boy, who earnestly begged for a penny. “Why don’t you go to work?” demanded the gentleman, severely. "Ides try in’ to git 'nough money to buy some papers,” was the “Oh pshaw!” sternly exclaimed a little colored newsboy, "yu’ got six cents now —’nough ter buy to’ papers. Dat’s cap ital ’nough fo’ anybody!” The African Laud of Promise. The well-known saying that Africa is a land which contains rivers without water, birds without song, and flowers without smell, is doubtless true. It is a strange country, ancient and mysterious, yet it is a rich country. Abounding as it does in tha best of nature’s gifts, rich in its mineral stores, and for the greater part a healthy region, it but awaits the spread of civilization to make it an equal with its sister continents. Here, then, is a field for the surplus population of overcrowded Europe.

A Fearful Sentence. * New York Judge—Have you anything to say in mitigatiojjj&f' your sentence? Murderer—Nothing your honor. Judge—You know that executions are now done by electricity? Murderer—Yes, your honor. , Judge—Then it is my painful duty to sentence you to work as a lineman for the Overhead Wire until you are dead, dead, dead. Murderer faints. ■ (J - Prompt Punishment. Maine is a bad State in which to commit a crime. In most cases punishment is swift and sure, but it is claimed that the conviction and sentence of Sawyer and Campbell, at Augusta, beats tbe record. In just one week after the crime was committed the prisoners were in jail, sentenced to prison for lift