Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1879 — Roscoe's Wed Wattles. [ARTICLE]

Roscoe's Wed Wattles.

[New York Star.] Mr. Blaine hugely enjoyed the spectacle of Lamar’s torture of ConkiiDg and the latter’s towering rage in the Senate last Wednesday. While the Maine senator was descending the steps of the capitol shortly a f ter the affair, he encountered one of the members of the House from Massachu setts, who questioned him in relation to it: “Oh, it was exceedingly rich!” exclaimed Blaine. “I don’t think I ever saw Conkling’s wattles quite so red.“ A Janesville, Wis., man claims to have discovered an infalltble cure for potato bugs. His plan is simplv to plant one or two flax seed in each hill of potatoes. He says that the bugs will shun it every time, and that for ten years he has been thus successful in raising potatoes while others have failed. The proposed remedy is simple, and it costs almost nothing to try it. Henry V-atr- Am burg, of Howells, New York! sold his wife to Joseph Wood for- $6, and thut would have been thtrend of the matter, probably, if the woman had not, when drunk, been* killed by a railroad train. Both husbands claim the right to sue the liquor seller, under the civil damage act, as’ her husband. Patrick—“ Biddy, darlint, they’ve been fellin’ me there’s too many of us in the worrukh Now, if you and me get the praste to make us two wan, troth won’t there be wan the less?” - There are 212 teachers employed in the Indianapolis schools. The expenses of the schools of Indianapolis foot r Up $200,000 per year.