Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1894 — A Bad Darkey. [ARTICLE]

A Bad Darkey.

Texas Siftings. “Keep away from dat nigger, I tell you,”' said Uncle Rube to his sable daughter. “He’s like wot John de Baptis’ lived on.” “How’s dat?” she asked. “Low cuss an’ wild honey,” was the reply. If the foot of a fly is put under the glass of a good microscope, it may be seen how simple is the contrivance that seems able to defy the laws of gravitation. The foot is made up of two pads, covered with fine, soft hairs, with a pair of curved hooks above them. Behind each pad is a tiny bag filled with clear liquid gum, the hairs also being hollow and filled with the same sticky fluid. As the fly glides rapidly over a smooth sur* face, every step presses out a supply of gum strong enough to give him a sure footing and to sustain him in safety if he halts. So strong is the cement that one of his six feet is quite suSicient to sustain the weight of his whole body. Ifjhe stands still any length of time the gum is apt to dry up and harden, and so securely fasten the fly’s foot as to make a sudden step snap the leg itself. I In 1845 a Scotch farmer sued the customs authorities for a penny and won his case. The costs amounted to S7OO. A girl employed in a down-town office says she has._contracted the licker habit by moistening the big Columbian stamps 4

Fair and Beautiful Lands Across the Sea Give promise to the ocean voyager of health ind pleasure, but there is a broad expanse of waters to be passed that rise mountain high In rough weather and grievously disturb the unactustomed stomach, more particularly if it is I hat of ah invalid. Moreover, the vibrations of the vessel s hull caused by the motion of the screw of a steamer, a change ot water and latitude, and abrupt transitions of temperature, cannot, without a medicinal safeguard, be encountered jwith Impuhity. For sea sickness, . and prejudicial influences of air and water, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a standard safeguard. Tourists, yachtsmen, mariners, commercialtravelers, and people bound on a sea voyage or inland jaunt, should always be provided with it. Incomparable for malaria, rheumatism, neuralgia, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, sick headache, biliousness and constipation. Some orators arc badly stuck by the time they reach the point of a discourse. What is more fascinating than a complexion tinted like the rarest seashell and purified by the use of Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. TKTeves ’drea'i the light, and so does the man who falls out of a balloon.