Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — Sheridan. [ARTICLE]

Sheridan.

Busch, in his Tnemoir of “ Bismarck in the Franco-Prussian War,” describes Gen. Sheridan as “a little, corpulent gentleman, aged 45 (ho was then only 39), with a thick mustache and tuft, speaking with a decidedly German accent.” “ Burnside,” he writes, “ came in as we were at coffee, with an older gentleman, in a red flannel shirt and paper collar. The General is a rather tall and very well-made man, and, with his busby whiskers and eyebrows and soldierly air, might pass for a Major of one of our regiments”—the highest compliment a German can imagine. Sheridan said to Bismarck, Busch writes: “ The main thing in true strategy is this: First deal as hard blows at the enemy’s soldiers as possible, and then cause so much suffering to the inhabitants of the country that they will long for peace and press their Government to make it. Nothing should be left to the people but eyes to lament the war.” _ The latest sensation in Paris is Miss Cora, “the lions’ bride.” She claims to be an American, and lives in a den with hyenas, bears, lions and other ferocious beasts. A Maine man has caught a bat weighing pearly two pounds.