Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — BRIEFLETS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEFLETS.

Ten oounties in Tennessee have no newspapers. Modjeska boasts the finest corsets on the American stage, One of the New Haven Malley boys waptg to go on the stage. Judah P. Benjamin expects to return to America to reside. Miss Emily Faithfull says that this Is her last visit to America. Jack Johnson, at Sabine Pass, Tex., killed fifty teal ducks at one shot. Bets are being made in Atlanta that the cotton crop will not be over 6,000,000 bales. A farmer of Suannee county, Fla., has gathered two crops of peaches from his trees this year. Three tramps took possession of the bridge at Easton, Pa., the other day, and collected toll from people who passed over. Mr. Villard has stabled Old Nig, the horse who drew the first and last load of rails for the Northern Pacific road, comfortably in New York, there to pass the remainder of his days in peaceful enjoyment of all the oats he can eat. A rural inventor claims that he can make paper out of grass. He says that grass paper is stronger, softer, more transparent than linen stock, and considerable cheaper. According to his figures, one acre of grass will produce 8,711 pounds of paper. A rock impregnated with petroleum, iron and gold la on exhibition in Los Ageles, CaL