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

ODD STORIES.

In New oav‘en, Conn., 172 persons over 70 • died' iast year. The population is’about 60,000. The terms of twenty-five United States Senators will expire in 1885. or whom fourteen are Democrats and eleven Republicans. An ostrich raiser says that, ostriches are plucked once a year when uud r 3 year? of age, and twice a year when older, yieldingfeathers at each plucking worth from S7O tos9o.' .jr.Q• The Pike’s Peak railway will probably be completed by July 4,1884. '