Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — The Skill and Knowledge [ARTICLE]

The Skill and Knowledge

Essential to the production of the most perfect and popular laxative remedy known, have enabled the California Fig Svrup Co. to achieve a great success in the reputation of its remedy. Syrup of Figs, as it is conceded to be the universal laxative. For sale by all druggists.

Berry, late ahe hangman in England, was summoned recently for not paying a very small debt. He explained that his lectures on hanging had not proved attractive, that lie had unsuccessfully tried to get work as a commercial traveler, and that none of his six children could find employment on account of his former calling.

Young ladv- r -“Have you a city directory here?” Druggist—-“ Yes, madame.” Young T^ady—“Please look through it, and find Mrs. Sewseam’s present location, and address this envelope to her. Here’s 2 cents for the stamp.”—N. Y. Weekly. Hostetter McGinnis—l can’t see what you fine to love about That dog. Miss Elderly—He was the playmate of my childhood. Hostetter McGinnis —Why, I didn’t know that dogs were such longlived animals.—Texas Siftings. Arthur Kitson predicted the use of tras at 20 cents per 1,00 0 feet at a meeting of The Foundrymen’s Association in Philadelphia. “A good quality ofill uminatinggas can be put into the city’s holder for 20 cents per 1,000 cubic feet,”he said. He then proceeded to predict that the time was not far distant when the use of solid fuel in houses and factories would be entirely unknown, and that gas would entirely supersede it, JVIr. Kitsim is the inventor of a new furnace which agitates the coal gas deposited in it, and thus avoids all clinkers in the cheap manufacture ol gas.