Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

The “Confederate rose" is a singular flower grown by Joseph C. Bailey, of New Orleans. It is white in the morning, but red at “night. It grows in largo bunches. A farmer in Stokes county, iJ. C., got into a frenzy over his short crops this season, and cursed heaven and earth. While ho was cursing he was suddenly paralyzed. A sparrow flow against a'man as ho was briskly rounding the corner of an old wall in Louidville, Ky. The bird's bill entered the corner of the man’s eye, destroying the sight. A curious lawsuit is now pending in Lausanne. A dog chased a cat, which fled down the air shaft leading from the afreet into a wine vault. The dog followed, and the two fell against the tap of a large cask of Yvorne, and the wine began to flow. The wine merchant claimed he had a cause of getion for the loss of his wine, and as the owner of the cat was not known, ho Sued the dog. » Plymouth church, Brooklyn, received but seven new members last year.