Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — GENERAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NOTES.

Minnie Smith, after having' been confined a quarter of a century on Blackwell’s island. New York, leaped from an upper ter or cells to the floor, and ended her wretched Ufa A mother only 13 years old, living in Rose, Wayne county, N. Y., recently gave birth to a female child weighing seven pounds. At last reports mother and child were doing well In a recent sermon, at Baltimore, B shopRyan advanced the doctrine that Catholic priests have not the power to forgive sins unless the sinner feels sorrow for what he has dona The Duke and Duchess of Teck have gone to live economically in Germanv, leaving their apartments in Kensington Palace at the disposal of Princess Louise and theMarquis of Lorna One of the stylish wraps this winter is going to be the Russian circular, fittifig close in the back, reaching to the feet, and hanging loose in front it will be principally made of silk, and bound with fur. Great satisfaction has been given to the friends of woman s advancement by the announcement that in the recent examinations of women students at Cambridge, England, five have obtained honors and two degrees. Rev. John Bueler, a colored Baptst preacher of Wyandotte, Kan., suddenly stopped in his sermon and placed his faceon the open Bibla After some minutes had. elapsed, a deacon went to the pulpit and found him dead. The best snake story of the day comes from an oat-field near Danville, HL A man with a reaper cut the head from a rattlesnake. After diligent search two other reptiles were found, and while the battle for their extermination was in progress twenty young rattlesnakes were born and kiUed. Two boys named»Dennls Shea And George Marshall engaged in a scuffle at Holyoke, Mass., and Marshall was thrown to the ground, dying almost instantly. The doctors say that his death w<s caused by asphyxia, the lungs being gorged with blood, while one ventricle of the heart was empty. The inhabitants of Rugby, Tenn., seem to have acquired the American power of invention. One of them says that he was out in a thunder-storm, wheeling brush-in a wheelbarrow, when there suddenly descended a ball of lira When his dazzled eyes could see there was nothing left of tne wheelbarrow or its load but a twisted tire. About eight months ago John Gouton, of Everson, Pa, while drinaing water from a spring at West Overton, swallowed a small lizard. It very often came up in his month and gave him much troubla He concluded to try a remedy to induce the unwelcome occupant of his stomach to come forth. He fasted for twenty-four hours, after which he ate a handful of sa t and laid down beside a pail of water. The lizard came up into his mouth. John closed his teeth on it, grasped it with his hand and threw it to the ground. It was four or five inches in length. Jim Haqeb was sitting in an easy position, with his feet on the mantel-piece, in his house in Heppner, reading the advertisements in the Gazette. He was having lots of fun at this, and expected to continue enjoying himself for at least ten minutes, when suddenly his old tom-cat came in and sprung up on his lap. Jim told him to Jay . down ana keep quiet, but Mr. Cat would not do it, and insisted on springing around, running toward the door, and trjing to bark. Finally Jim told him to lead on, and and where he lead he would follow. Tom took him around the house to a closet The door was closed and had a rock rolled up against it Tom-cat became excited and rubbed up against Jim’s legs. Jim opened the door, ana was greeted wi*h the peculiar sinring of a rattle-snake, which Tom-cat had corralled and then barricaded the door. The snake was soon killed Fifteen rattles and five buttons. The rock had hair on it, showing where the cat hod shouldered it— Heppner (Ga.) Gazette.