Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1879 — T pical Americans. [ARTICLE]

T pical Americans.

The poin t reporter of the Hartford Courimt Wat* so struck by the proportions of (lie members of the Grand Jury in attendance on the United States District Court, now in session there, that lie had thorn weighed an : measured. Of the nineteen members present onlv four were less than G feet high. Their average height was 0 feet 1-Jr inches, and the average weight U 5 pounds. The tallest member was B. 13. Cranford, of Norwalk, G fed 4 inches, and the shortest E L Chapman, of To land. feet H* inches.

The public debt increased $24,788 during the month of June. Ten miliion barrels cf lager a year are in the United States. The average price paid teachers in the Indianapolis schools is $49.46 per month. A tramp applied to a doctor for some work and the doctor asked him what he could do. “Well,” said he, “I could dig graves.” A Massachusetts man got even with the chap who eloped with his daught&r by causing him to be arrested for keeping an unlicensed poodle. “Time, at last, makes all things ev£h.” Mr. Sultz’s little girl, while playing forty feet away from a saw mill at Pleasautville, was struck on the head by a flying chip iiom the saw, receiving dangerous and perhaps fatal injuries, .-<«>■ “Twenty years ago,” said a colored philosopher, “niggers was wuf a thousand dollars apiece. Now (ley would be deah at two dollars a dozen. . It’s ’stonishin’ how de race am runnin’ down.” A very old lady on herde ith bed,iu penitential mood, said: “I have been a great sinner more than eighty yeais, and didn’t know it.” An old colored who had lived with her a long time, exclaimed. “Lors! I knowd it all de time.”

One of the charges against a Sene* ea Falls, New York, minister is that he nired a livery horso and wagon, was gone two days, swapped horses six different times, and came back to the stable with the same horse be took out, and $lO3 in his pocket as the profits of his operations. A college professor once tried to convince Horace Gre'dey of the value of classic languages. The professor said: “Theselanguages are the condui s of the literary treasures of an tiquity.” Mr Ureeley replied: “I like Croton water very well, but it doesn’t follow that I should eat a yard or two of lead pipe.” The steamship City of Washington, of Alexandre’s line, which arrived at New York from Havana, Juno 25th, made the passage in three days and five hours. This is two hours and 45 minutes quicner than any passage she has heretofore made, and is the fastest passage on record between Havana and New York.