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

YANKEE NOTIONS.

At the dinner table of a New Bedford gentleman, five persons lately eat down, whose united weight was 1,050 pounds Mbs Sally Tubneb, an elderly lady residing in Athens, Me ,has become so habituated to the use of opiates that she takes eight bottles of morphine a week, or over one each day. Gabby Reed believed that a person crossing before him brought bad luck, and for years before his death at Waterbary, Conn., his dodging behind horses and men was a lamiliar street sight It is said “200 years ago the Indians indians indulged in Turkish baths” Yes, it must have been all of 200 years ago. To judge from the one we saw last it might nave been 1,000 years ago. A New Haven (Conn.) lawyer has the reputation of being an adept at holding a piece of pie in his sleeve and eating it on the street for luncheon without being discovered by any but the closest observer. A oow belonging toT. c. Narramore, of Williston, Vt, reeently climbed up two flights of stairs and brought up in a woodshed .chamber. It took the combined efforts of all the neighbors to get her safely down again. It is said that a blind man named Benson, who had been an inmate of the Wethersfield (Ct) town house for more than fifty years, has such a remarkable memory that he can repeat almost OYO-y word of any sermon be ... . ‘‘ . ..