Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1880 — A Note to Advertisers. [ARTICLE]

A Note to Advertisers.

Colorado has no State house. A Harlem sifcii: ‘ Freshe e«3 foi ;-ail just lade.” Tv. ac hundred ears daily cross the St. Louis bridge. (General Hancock lias a plurality of over (1000 votes on the count ol the popular vote. Iu one grove in California arc 1,389 trees, tone measuring loss than six feet in diameter. Dining the four years’ term i f the late Governor Williams', nearly $20,(XX) of unexpended balance .in the contingent fund was carried into the State treasury’. Asor Ward, a veteran of the war of INI2, who saw General J avkenhani killed at New Oileans, died at hihome in Fort Scott, K.msus, the other day, aged 103 years.

A new fan invented in Germany has needles and thread concealed in its first fold, so as to ho all ready to repair damages if the wearer’s gown be torn at a ball. — Govornor elect Crittendoa, of Missouri, is to wear at his inauguration a SIOO suit of elotnes presented to him by Colonel D. Patrick Dyer, his defeated republican competitor for the off!co. A New York florist recently chartered a car to send a piece of decorative work to a Cleveland wedding. It was a bower of thatched straw, lifteen feet high, and studded with roses and trimmed with wreaths. Hayes suggested in his message that Grant should he made Captain Genera], We for one think that the great north American pauper has already received more honors from the American people, thun he bus earned.

“But I am Gen. Grant,” eaid the ex president recently to a conductor on the Washington speoial to whom the general had shown his pass, bu* who insisted on the (1 extra fare so* 1 the speoial. “Can’t help that, youi pass only, covers the ordinary ticket. 1 must have sl,” and Gen. Grant handed over the dollar. In opposition to the cla m thatsil. ver dollurs ought to be ra-coined a dollor’s worth of metal in each piece, the present dollar having only 85 oents worth, Mr. Kelley, prominent republican, insists that they have 12 grains now of silver coins in Europe, aud the quantity should be mads 12 grains loss than now to correspoud with silver coin of other countries. Since 1852 Samuel J. Tilden is ths only man elected to the Presidency by a majority of all the votes cat t All others have been plurality Presidents. Among the number we do not include Ha/cf who is only Presi dent in name aud that not by virtue of law. The time will come when Hayes will only bo referred to as the man wiio occupied Tilden’s place and drew his salary.

The Chicacro Tribune, for a column n year, received $26,000. The New York Herald receives for lowest prim column $39,723, and for its highest $248,000, The New York daily Trib nne for its lowest $27,794, and for its highest $85,648, and these papers are never at a loss for an advertisement to fill their columns. Their patron n o comas not through a desire to assist the respective papers, but from business men who find it profitable to advertise. A brakeman on tho Maine Central freight train, by the Dame of Star rett, is deaf aud dumb- Ho is about twenty-four years old, and his home is in Burham. For a number ol years past ho has been employed on the track, and is now considered Lie best brakeman on the road. If there is any trouble with any part of the train’ Starrett is one of the first to discover it, and he is always at his poit when the brakes are wanted. How he can tell when the brakes are required is a mystery, but he nevei fulls.—Michigan City Dsipatch. The report of Auditor Manson for the year ending Oct. 31, has just been completed. It shows ihe following: Cash on hand Nov. 1, 1879, $583,75162; revenue of the, $8,492,209.02; in eluding $1,477,609.92 general fnad $2,U10,845.64 school func ; disbursements, $3,150,025.57. including $1,299. 89 general fund,. $1,998,354.26 school fund. $177,626.70 State House; cash on hand, $885,865.37. The expense on account of tho constitutional amendments was $1,262.70. The Auditor estimates expenditures for 1882 and 1883 at $2,362,940, on aocount of general fund.