Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — A Good Use. [ARTICLE]

A Good Use.

“Aw,” said an English tourist, speaking to a conductor on a Missouri railway, “will you please tell me why the train has stopedhere?” “Still-house,” answered the conductor. “A still-’ouse!” “Yes.” “May I ask w’g you stop at a still’ouse?” “To get whisky to run the train with.” 4 “What! run a train with whisky?” “Yes, use it instead of water. Fill up the tender with it. Makes better steam than water does. Lasts longer —pulls harder. ” “You don’t say so?” “Yes, I think I do.” “Well, isn’t that viry, viry queer, you know?” “Ko, can’t say that it is.” “I must make a note of that.” The following shortly after appeared In a London publication: “The Americans now run their railway engines with whisky. This is the result of the recent republican victory. Numerous distilleries belonging to the democrats were confiscated after the campaign, and as the liquor is too strong for the republicans to drink, they use it in hauling their trains.”—Arkansas Traveler. An excellent liniment for neuralgia is made of sassafras, oil of organum, and a half ounce of tincture of capsicum, with half a pint of alcohoL Soak nine yards of flannel in this mixture, wrap it around the head, and then insert your head in a hay stack until death comes to your relief.—Larninu Boomerang. . ’’T '.T ' * ' "• J'kifil