Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — PEOPLE AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Beer in Kansas is “sca foam.” Miss Ada Briggs, of Philadelphia, weighs 682 pounds. Senator Payne has a son old enough to be a grandfather. A Boston firm offers a prize of $2,000 for the best American opera. “Aunt Milly,” of Nashville, 100 yearsold, was married the other day to a man forty years her junior. The only excuse left by Miss Hewitt, of Keokuk, lowa, for herself was that she had the “ blues.”' A doctor In Rockland, Me., says the girls there chew white cotton rags for their complexion, and that as the rags are bleached with arsenic they improve the color of their cheeks, and break down their health at the same time. The lowa Legislature contains fifty-eight Union war veterans.