Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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Mahone is bald-headed and has fray whiskers. Irving, the actor, is a continual cigarette smoker. Matthew Arnold does not like American newspapers. Thomas Nast is talking about starting an illustrated weekly. Next year’s crop of Mormon immigrants is estimated at 75,000. A rainbow was seen at night, reoently, in Orange, Tex., while the moon was out Of Sight. May Forney, daughter of the late J. W, “Forney, writes fashion articles for Philadelphia papers. Good butter retails in Tuscon, Arizona, at $4.25 a pound, while eggs are in demand at6s cents per dozen. On the person of a thief recently captured in Hartford, Ct., was found a draft for $1,028.55, dated June 24, 1844. An Arkansas editor announces that he is compelled to retire from his paper on account of being so afflicted with the gout. “Game hash’’ is one of the dishes served at the Yellowstone Park hotel, but visitors are said to be semowhat suspicious of it. The authorities of Grand Rapids, Mich., have given orders to the undertakers to take funeral processions through the back streets. Lord Coleridge speaks of Nathaniel Hawthorne as “our greatest writer, the master of an exquisite and an absolutely perfect stylo.” The grave caved in at a Hartford, (Qt.,) funeral, the other day, just as the coffin was to be lowered, and one of the bearers went with it. Ex-Senator Gwin, although 78 years oldis as erect and sturdy as an oak. Gen. Jackson appointed him United States Marshal for Mississippi fifty years ago. At Montgomery, Ala., Mr. Beecher told his audience that if he had been living in tbe South at the outbreak Of the war, be would undoubtedly have been a Confederate. A fox-squirrel two feet in length was killed ia Fayette county, Ky., recently.