Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — MORE OR LESS STRANGE. [ARTICLE]

MORE OR LESS STRANGE.

A mammoth sea monster, supposed to be a turtle, weighing: some 2,500 pounds, was captured off the coast of Nova Scotia by the schooner J. H. Higgins. George H. Willett, in jail in Caldwell, N. Y., made a miniature church and sent it to the Warren county fair for exhibition. But the managers would not exhibit it, as they feared it might create sympathy for him. He is supposed to be a murderer. Dr. Niles, of Jacksonville, Fla., does not understand his well. It is 800 feet above the high-water mark of the Florida coast, is but sixteen feet deep, yields a full supply of pure, cold, fresh water, and yet it rises and falls with the ocean tides. He wants it explained. A San Francisco old woman, who had failed in an attempt to write on a postal card as long a letter as she had intended to, presented the spoiled card at the postofflee to be exchanged for a one, and when the clerk refused she scratched his face and bit his finger. In Kingston, .Ontario, some gypsies drove to a minister’s house and requested him to marry a young couple. When the young lady was asked whether she would accept the man, she stuttered and stammered, and finally ran out of the building. On being caught, she was horsewhipped by her father. John Shanks, an aged Indian, is repairing the old Council • House in Portage, N. Y. From the woods near by he gathers a peeuliar dry moss and packs the interior space between the logs, and with a queer woodea trowl he plasters the outside cracks with tough clay, making thfe walls impervious to wind and cold. Hx- Senator Conkling can repeat the whole of Scott's “Lady of the