Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Spubgkon is * A Jay Goold Is 65 yean old. Mb. Tennyson is a Spiritualist Longfellow is 73 jean old. The death-rate of Leadville is very high. Soot imparts remarkably bright green to grass and grain. It is said that tight-lacing makes red noses and cold feet. Thebe is an average of one suicide per daj in this country. Eveby day in this world the births exceed the deaths by 25,020. Fig trees bear fruit in California the second year after being planted. Wm. H. Yandebbilt’s annual inoome from his bonds alone is $640,000. Senator David Davis has lost fifty pounds of flesh since last summer. A modern philosopher says that men do not go to a pantry to buy pants. It will remain for future generations to bore a tunnel through to China. The soldiers in our frontier forts spend their spare time in gambling. ' Philadelphia got the contract for lighting the lighthouses of the country —47,000 gallons of -lard oil. The Supreme Court of Ohio has adopted new and more stringent requirements for admission to its bar. Great quantities of tobacco are raised in Russia, the seed from whioh it is grown being obtained chiefly from this country. Abstemiously and facetiously are said to be the only two words in which the vowels follow one another in alphabetical order.

A Rochester widow, long after receiving aid from the Overseer of the Poor, was found to own the house in which she lived and $1,500 in a bank. Bustles having gone out of fashion, a richly-dressed woman wearing one of great size attracted the attention of the customs officers at Windsor, Canada. It was found to contain tea. Five thousand dollars is offered by the American Humane Society of Chicago for a stock oar in which live animals can be carried long distances without needless suffering. Finding a basket on her stoop, a cautious woman in Newport, R. 1., took it to a police station, and was surprised to learn afterward that it contained a twenty-pound turkey and not a foundling. No other man in the world of his years has known and conversed with so many celebrated and interesting persons as has the Prince of Wales, and consequently he is unusually well-informed, though little of a reader. Boston eyes are the poorest in the world. While a by-stander on a fashionable street of Boston was taking notes he saw in an hour and a half fiftyfive people who wore eye-glasses. Thir-ty-four were ladies and twenty-one were men. John Maddocks and Henry Quin, of Dublin, the former in the clear and unincumbered possession of $30,000 a year, and both in full possession of health and competence, committed suicide early in the century for no other reason than that they were tired of the unvaried repetitions and amusements, to them insupportably insipid, of existence. A Chicago thief shaved off his mustache after robbing a lady in the street, and by that means made it impossible for her to identify him when he was arrested ; but he could not long resist the months later, when the new mustache had grown like the old one, she recognized him in a crowd, and lie has been convicted. A little boy starved to death, at Pittsburgh, in consequence of a throat disease that prevented his swallowing anything. He lived four weeks without eating or drinking. His pleadings for food were pitiful, and he frequently dreamed of enjoying sumptuous repasts only to awake to dreadful hunger and thirst. Just before he died he asked his mother if they would have a good dinner for him in heaven. The Japanese, who are a wise people, and fond of expressing themselves by symbols, present to each other on every New-Year’s day a piece of the commonest and coarsest dried fish, done up in a rough scrap of paper. This is to remind them of the frugality and temperance of their ancestors, and in this way to exhort each other to form and keep good resolutions for the next twelvemonth. “good-by !” I listen to the laughter in your room; And do you laugh because my sad heart grieves O’er buried forms of joy? The flowers’ perfume Ne’er lingers in d> ad branches and sere leaves. So da T s have lived whose sun ne’er shines again. And other nights had more and brighter stars. Ah I rocks-our storm-scarred boat as gay as when In youth we sailed across yon harbor bars? X leave you now, and shall not breathe a sigh, Because I he r your slowly-coming feet; And I could face a cannon's mouth, and die, Rather than have you see ray sorrow, swe< tl Chicago, 111. Eli Omal.