Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — QUEER PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

QUEER PEOPLE.

At Harrisburg, Pa, a youth 18 years old shot himself seven times because a 16-year-old girl wouldn't marry him Tazewell county, GA, glories in an eccentric lounger who had placed thirteen large arm-chairs in as many stores, so he can always have a seat when he calls. Two oirls were in love with an lowa man. He loaned his fine saddle-horse to one of them, and of course she rbde past the residence of the other, who wildly ran out and stabbed the beast with a knife. Abram Schenck, a blind man, was married to Rebecca Jane Bennett, by a Justice of the Peace, in Missouri. Abram kissed the Justice. and Rebecca got so mad that she was pacified with great difficulty. A man from Bowling Green, Ky., visited the Louisville exposition, got stranded, and, in order to get his usual amount of Bear Grass juice, he sold his spectacles for°3) cents, which aided him materially in getting blind drunk. Mrs. Ashlv, of Atlanta, Ga, who is slightly insane, was found trying to swallow a kitten. She had it about half-way down her threat and it was with difficulty that she could be induced to give it up. Her face was considerably scratched and her mouth badly lacerated. “Ole Tom” was a character in Washington who picked up rags and refuse for a living, and made no talk with anybody. It now transpires that he was a genuine Russian Count, who has been pardoned by the Czar and gone home to enfov his castellated ea- * tate and millions of rubles.