Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

Mrs. Jerusha Stowehl, of Peru, Mass., is 96 years of age. Recently she fell and fractured her hip. The wealth of Massachusetts, as assessed for tax purposes, is $1,781,297,061, an increase of $47,000,000 on the valuation of 1882. William E. Brockway, the forger, began life as an apprentice in a job printing office in New Haven thirty years ago or a Tittle over. Gen. Neal Dow, of Maine, has just received from an ex-COnfederate soldier a pistol which was taken from him when ho was captured during the rebellion. Cleanliness may ba next to godliness, but it Isn’t as healthful as dirt. Pittsburgh, the dirtiest city In the country, is also the healthiest. Death rate 16.2 per 1,000 last yean One purpose which Mr. Kasson has in retiring from public life is to devote htmself more closely to literature. He finds ib impossible to do this and to properly attend to the duties of a Congressman. George Grimshaw, of Langlade oounty, Wis., who is represented to be 101 years old, last year elearcd the timber from an acre of jard-wood land, and during the eammcr raised 150 bushels of potatoes. of an ore mine at Cbrson, Nev., suddenly stopped, and among the ore was found the pulverised remains of hundreds of trout which had been swept through A broken screen in the mill-race into the supply pipe. The Postofflce Department'has decided bow to spell the bothersome name, “Allegany,” which has been spelled in four different ways, all of them correct. The matter was referred to several historical societies, and in accordance with their verdict the word fs to be spelled in the postoffices “Allegany,” which certainly has the advantage of si triplicity. There are 625 Indians still living in Florida.