Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — PERSONS AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONS AND THINGS.

A man with a stitch in his side can only feel so-so. A daily medical journal has been started in Paris. In Florida they run the defendant out of town if he is acquitted and doesn’t treat the jury. - The Eyptian war prevented the gathering of the gum-arabic crop. Recently the gum has risen 10 per cent, in price. Diphtheria Is very fatal in some sections of Boston. A Mr. William Eaton, of that city, lost four children by the disease in six z days. A storekeeper in Toronto, Canada, has been fined S2O and costs for selling chances to guess the number of beans in a bottle for prizes. James Russell Lowell is called the Indian Summer of American Literature, while Benjamin F. Butler is the. Dakota Blizzard of Politics. _ St. Louis is to have a new 2-cent morning paper.