Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1875 — Raising Hopes to Crush Them. [ARTICLE]

Raising Hopes to Crush Them.

He is a solemn-looking boy about ten years of age, and he wears a long face as he drops into the Coroner’s office and remarks: “ Shocking murder, wasn’t it?” “What! What’s that!” exclaims the Coroner, springing up. “ Chopped her head clean off!” continues the boy, carelessly. “ Where —when—what street?” “ And she was a perfect lady!” adds the boy. “ Come on—half a dollar —other Coroner—get a hack!” calls the Coroner, getting mtoffiis overcoat. “ I was speaking of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France in 1793—regular put-up job!” demurely replies the lad. “if you want to read the particulars of the case I’ll fetch over the book.” The Coroner sits down and contemplates the steaming end of the stick of cordwood protruding from the stove, and the clock on the desk goes ahead with its labor of ticking time into Detroit Free Press. Just Cause for Being Alarmed! — When a cough has been running for a long time, and vou begin to feel a pain setting in upon vour Lungs, attended with tightness across the chest, it is high • time that you should awaken to the danger of your disease, which is fast running into fatal Consumption. Now before it is too late use Allen’s Lung Balsam, which will cure the disease, and all will ha well with vou. For sale*by all Medicine Dealers. Tint Indian remedy for dandruff—Removing the scalp.