Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The broad-heel shoe is becoming fashionable for ladies’ wear. The Chinese use American lard, for oleomargarine, on their bread. Ouray, the late Ute chief, left property valued at $200,000. Moody and Sankey have fused for the coif version of the California “hoodlums.” A golden owl, with diamond eyes, perched upon a crescent moon of rubies, is one of the new scarf-pin designs. A recent report shows that the increase in the consumption of horse and ■ass flesh is large and steady in France. A publication giving the origin and pedigree of all the old Virginia families is issued periodically at Richmond. Fifty-seven tons of Greek marble have been delivered in London, free of all charges, by the Greek Government, for the Byron pedestal. Italian army officers are now exercised in the practical running of railroad trains, so that in time of war they may know all about moving troops by rail. During the past five years ex-Gov. Stanford, of California, has accumulated a stable of 294 head of thoroughbred and trotting horses at his stud farm, Palo Alto, Cal. A man near Houston, Texas, made §6OO per acre this year from the cultivation of domestic blackberries. The yield was 3,000 quarts per acre, which sold at 20 cents a quart. A method of removing the bark from trees, when the sap is not flowing, by treating the wood with superheated steam, has secured for the inventor a prize offered by the French Agricultural Society. A Frenchman has discovered that an oil can be distilled from American grape vines which will not congeal above 8 cleg. Fah., while other oils congeal at 27| deg. He recommends this oil for watch-making and similar uses. German clerks are underbidding English in London, and there is an outcry. Germans seem very glad in these days to quit their Faderland. Bismarck has perhaps shown them too clearly “ how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land.” The wedding guests were assembled to see Howard Canby married to a Baltimore belle, when a telegraph boy brought in this message from the absent bridegroom: “I have left you. ” The bride fainted, and her friends slowly dispersed, expressing an unfavorable opinion of Canby. In Northampton county, N. C., Ranson Harris, 14 years old, and James Ingram, 10 years old, both colored, became involved in a quarrel, during which Ingram threw an ax at Harris, but missed his aim. Harris then threw the ax at Ingram, striking him on the head, killing him instantly. A man complained in a police court at Marietta, Ohio, that a neighbor had struck him on the head with a cane. “I don’t think he hurt you much,” said the Justice. “No, I don’t know as he did,” was the response. But they were wrong, for the man’s skull was fractured, and a minute later he fell dead in court. There is no necessity to neglect your business if you only use Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup at once ; the most reliable remedy m the world for Coughs, Colds, etc. Suicide is inspired by various and veiy conflicting motives. Early in the war of the rebellion a boy hanged himself in Northern Ohio because his father would not let him enlist. A good many more persons put an end to their lives through tire mere apprehension of being drafted and killed in battle. An excbange now says that the wife of Judge Miller, of Lincolnville, Maine, hanged herself the other day to the bed post, leaving a note to the effect that she was drawing near seventy-five years of age, and feared that she would come to trouble if she reached it.