Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — ODD OCCURRENCES. [ARTICLE]

ODD OCCURRENCES.

A gang of tramps found an unocctMtaAf house in Minnesota with comfortable cooking utensils, and a stove. • TheyJu&M lawless possession, and it was not end of a week that they learned were in a small-pox pest house A J A Wisconsin schoolma’am wished to corporally punish a big boy, but doubted her own ability to whip him. In this dilemma she gave the bully of the school permission to satisfy an old grudge against him, and the thrashing was quite as severe as she could have wished. A strangeb, of respectable appearance and somewhat solemn demeanor, entered a flour-dealer’s store in Oswego and said that he wished to pay for a barrel of flour fraudulently obtained thirty yeai> ago. He “calculated" that flour was then worth 11 a barrel, and wit'out another word he handed out sl6 and went his way. Annie Gsandteb, 15, began several years ago to help her father, a switch tender on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, and for some time has had charge, at S4O a month, of seven important switches She and her father live a Box and Cox life, she working from 6a. m. to 8 p. m., when he relieve® her. She is believed to be the sole railroad switcheress in the country. A furniture dealer in Bowling Green, Ky set a lot of willow chairs out in front of his store the other day, to attract the attention of those who might be looking for goods in that line. When he to take them in at night he found them almost covered with buds and young sprouts. The willow was cut last fall ana the chairs built and varnished during the winter. Pennsylvania is evidently no place to play at matrimony. About a year ago Dennis Cionin and Annie Powers, of Altoona, aged te>pe stiie yl6 and 15, stood up in a lonely place and procla med them eli es married. Cionin subsequently often acknowledged her as Ms wife." ’ Bhe becairre’ST'mother and he deserted her. Xhe Judge said he must support her. In default of bail, Dennis went to jail jF A gentleman in Hartford who lost his daughter last Christmas will not. in consequence of her expressed dread of being put into the ground, suffer her to be buried. The body lies in thq parlor, and to it an undertaker frequently applies preservatives, livery midnight the farther dresses himself and sits with the corpse, to itwords of endearing affection afi trough his daughter hettfflt "jiHl'Uay llgllWJffgles and finishes h s sleep. Neighbors have tried in vain to indupe him., to consent tattle burial His wife has' Buffered greutlyluKl he has at last consented to a vault in his dooryard made easily accessible so ghat he can still hold nightly dqymy on yh his daughter’s rein Canaelaria, Nev. when named Martin interrupted the half-drunken revelry by assuming a grave tone, and telling his audience hdw he might become somebody if he could only conquer his mania for drink, but how he had tfcied inyain. “Ah," he said, “I’ll WtjlMfworld; but, boys, as a last faTpj® Jfet me do so to the sound s^l,*Music.” His friends summoned some Italian musicflkis and while they played the doctor took iJodR phine. His friends, who did not bellvU Martin was in earnest, gradually lettThjn saloon, and the saloon-keeper, feeing hiajslj sound a-leep, locked up the house and retired. In th? morning the doctor wgs found