Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

ALL SORTS.

Frank Carpenter, of Sodus, N. Y., recently pared sixty-five bushels of apples in nine hours. It is said that the two unfinished tunnels on the Northern Pacific road will cost $lO,000,000. Lord Coleridge’s salary is $40,000 a years while the Chief Justice of the United States, receives slo^oo. The agent of the Cleveland Humane Society found a family of eight persons living in a chicken-coop. Fashionable young ladies should not forget that Goliath died from the effect of a bang on bis forehead A well-to-do maiden ladv in Patten, Ma, worked out her town tax this summer with rake and hoe on the road Mb. Francis F. Fargo, of Buffalo, N. Y., claims to have raised a sunflower this year fifty-two inches in circumference. SrrriNQ Bull is reported to be very sick. It will be remembered that several Senators made speeches to Sitting Bull a few weeks ago. Miss Ella Hill, a handsome girl of Sey mour, Ctt, killed herself with a shot-gun because her step-motber made her wear a dress which had been rumbled in a shower. Some land in the city of London was lately sold at the rate of $3,800,000 an acre.