Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1883 — ODD HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

ODD HAPPENINGS.

A stove made in 1828 in York, Pa, was recently sold for sl,ooa Joseph Thompson, of Simmons’ Gap, Ga, has had nine wives and fifty-three children. A sxlveb dime was found in the yelk of an egg recently broken at the Piankinton House, Milwaukee. “Just for fun” a scoundrel at Richmond, Va, gave a boy a pint of whisky to drink. The boy died, ana his murderer has been entenced to twelve years’ imprisonment While seining in the river at Shippingport, Ky., a fisherman brought up a rubber pvercoat containing a pocketbook, in which (were a SSO greenback and a S2O gold piece. Chakles Clew ell, of Catawissa, Pa, upon cleaning up the old granary on the premises ately occupied by his deceased father, found S7OO in old gold and silver coin in a jarrel of screenings. An eight-day clock that had been given to jthe wife of Douglas Ottinger, of Erie, Pa, as a wedding present by her husband, | topped at the very moment she died, and cannot be started again. A well-to-do farmer, living near Reading, Pa, created a sensation by bringing his three young and handsome daughters into court as the plaintiffs in three separate actions for breach of promise of marriage. The first night on which Samuel Scott, of Wartburg, Tenn., went into a bed to sleep he ,died. He weighed 350 pounds, and, by a physician’s advice, used to sleep by kneeling (upon the floor, with his head resting upon a jCnair. A man in Warren county, Ky., climbed a tree to shake down an opossum that hiß dogs had treed. The limb proved rotten, ana Smith came down so rapidly that the degs did not discover their error until they had nearly killed him.