Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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The total income of the charities of London* last year was $21,552,000. A South Carolina rattlesnake recently captured possessed thirty-three rattles. The tax rate of Philadelphia for the ensuing year has been fixed at $1.85 on SIOO. ) A child was recently born in Port Orange, Fla., with eignt grown teeth in its gums. Foreign capitalists have bought a track of land in Arkansas that contains 460,000,000 foe t of tfinber. The Western and Atlantic railroad traok, near Dalton, Ga., is haunted by a phantom locomotive. A horse balked in Buffalo, and the patient driver sat in the buggy nine hours before the animal moved. Bonanza Flood has imported artiste to decorate the interior of his prinoely palace ia San Francisco. Florida’s orange crop for this year is estimated at 102,000,000. Last year’s crop was 50,000,000 oranges. Eli Barnes, of Mendon, N. Y., become afflicted with blood poisoning recently from skinning a dead horse. A canal horse, hearing a locomotive whistle in Albany, N. Y., recently, leaped ia the air and fell doad from fright. The St. Louis Republican, the leading Democratic paper of Missouri, pronounces Frederick Douglass “the ablest and wisest man of his race.” A permanent exhibition building is to be one of the attractive places of amusement in Baltimore, Md. It is to be built of brick, marble and iron, and is to cost $500,000. The Yokohama Gazette declares that all efforts to introduce Christianity into Japan have been pitiable failures, and that the people of that country regard foreign missionaries with jealous aversion. The bones of Guiteau have been removed from the army medical museum to the Surveyor General’s office, where their identity is concealed except from a few officials. The reason Is that the curiosity hunters took up so much time of the officials of the medical museum as to interfere with the work. An attempt was made to smuggle opium into Snn Francisco by hiding it in ordinary blocks of wood hollowed out and covered with a thick coat of oil and grease. The blocks were placed under the gangway of a steamer so as to support it and mislead the customhouse officers. A protruding screw exposed the fraud, and SI,OOO worth of the drug was seized.