Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — ODD THINGS. [ARTICLE]

ODD THINGS.

A HAIR BUTT CONVICT. RAdsyng was a Western vender of meiicines. He relied chiefly upon hiß hair, which was two feet long, to advertise his wares, for it gave himself such an odd appearance that he drew a crowd on sight He became a oonvict lri St Louis, and the Warden shaved his head, in accordance with-prison usage. He protested & t the time, and now brings a suit for damages. A CHAMELEON GATEPOST. A California paper states that a year or more since a gatepost that had been painted with so-called zinc white was notioea to, appear black all day, gray in the twilight and white during the night On an investigation of the singular property of the paint the cause was shown to exist in a new metal, which has been named actinium, on aoooont of its peculiarly actinic effects. It is found in zinc ores and resembles zinc. THE WRONG CAP. At Waco, Texas, Fred Scheniok was trying to put on the end of a small pencil what seemed to be a common musket cap. It exploded and blew off one joint of a thumb and two joints of his finger. On examination of the box from which it was taken, the innooent looking caps all proved to be dynamite cartridges. Schenick was clerking in a hardware nouse, and ho one was aware that the oaps were filled with dynamite. A SHOWER OF BRIMSTONE. The wiseacres are not a little puzzled over a most mysterious fall of a “sulphur,” which covered the house and yard of Mr. Abram Wilson, a reputable farmer, residing four miles east of Wellsburg. A match applied to it eaused a bine flame, from which came the odor emitted by burning sulphur. The same substance was also discovered at other points.— Wheeling Intelligencer.