Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

Petroleum has been in the Punjab, Hindostan. A parson of Ottawa, Ont., resigned the other day because a brother clergyman united in marriage a man find his deceased wife's sister. Probably the wealthiest railroad conductor in America is employed on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road. He is said to be worth $50,000. « ?. A member of a Kentucky church ottered the Ladies’ Aid society $6 if its members would meet and make a quilt without saying a word. Two dozen of the ladles met at the parsonage and in two* hours the qui it was finished, but they all say .they would notdo such a thing again for SSO. A son of George Glaoe, while out hunting two miles below Selinsgrove, Pa., qt a place known as the “Narrows,” treed a squirrel, and, in enlarging the hole in order to secure the game, carte upon a hard substance which proved to be a silver watch. Cutting in deeper, he succeeded in taking out eleven of them. Some five years ago a jewelry store in Sunbury was lobbed of a lot of watches, and it Is supposed that this is part of the plunder.