Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

Colonel Oliver H. Payne, son of the new Senator from Ohio, is nearly 60 years old and a bachelor. Two of Brigham Young’s sons have died drunkards, two of his daughters are married to the same ushband, and another son writes poetry. The total number of actions brought in the High Court of Justice in England last year was 100,000, one-third commenced in the district registries and two-thirds in London. Mr. Baunum has decided to give his whin elephant the name of Tom Thumb. V