Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1875 — The Biggest Bet of the Missouri State Fair. [ARTICLE]

The Biggest Bet of the Missouri State Fair.

Five thousand dollars against a two-thou-sand dollar wager was offered by the Proprietors of the Jilz Well Auger that it would bore a hole of the same size faster and easier than any other well auger on exhibition, and we learn that this is a standing offer for one year. Who will accept it?.. See their advertisement in another column. The season for coughs and colds is rapidly approaching, and everyone should be prepared to check the "first symptoms, as a cough contracted between now and Christmas frequently lasts alljwinter, There is no better remedy than ment. For all diseases of the throat and lungs it should be used internally and externally. < ; L Lung fever, common cold, catarrhal fever and nasal discharge of a brownish color in horses may be checked at once by liberal use of Sheridan's Oavalry Condition Powders. Personal.— Jud. S. Bird.—"! certify that I have used DR. SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR in my family with complete satisfaction.” Rev. J. R. Felder.— “ My wife and self have used the REGULATOR for years, and I certify to its great virtues.”

The abundant presence of salt in the intestinal canal is hostile to almost all intestinalparasites; but it is only hostile to parasitic worms which it cannot immediately reach, because it gives a vigor to the health that is unfavorable to their development and existence within the body. If, instead of getting food seasoned with salt, as well as having the salt-cellar at table to take as many pinches from as we may wish for, we had to get our salt by licking a piece of rock-salt, and if, moreover, there were several others behind us who were impatiently pushing us out of the way in order to have their turn at the piece of rock-salt, we think it is very likely that we should not get salt enough, for our health, and that many more of us would suffer from worms than do now.— Prairie Farmer. Bread Jelly. —Toast some stale bread, and soak in boiling water; slice in one lemon, and then boil toajelly; strain and sweeten to taste; this is nice'for children, as well as for invalide. The man of much property may be as hard up as a beggar in pocket. It is the man of immediate cash who is rich in this world.