Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

GLEANINGS.

Or the 500 students at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts forty-two are Americans. George Bali, a rich banker, of Galveston, Tex., has given a $70,000-schoolhouse to that city. t Mackey, the South Carolina Congressman, recently deceased, was a white, but bis widow is a negross. The highest postage rate from the United States is to Patugonia and the Island of St. Helena—27 cents per half-ounco. Hiram Radcliff, a roclusc who diod recently at Klngs'on, N. Y., left personal property worth $150,000, Including a half-barrel of pennies. Therf. Is a story in London that the Prince of Wales has financially Interested himself in three race-horses, and that ho intends to run them next season “ for all they are worth.” A De« Moines intelligence offleo has received an order for a cook to go to Colorado. Tbo person writing says: “Thero are ten men here to one woman, and a good cook can get large wages and a husband.” - --- ■ ; .. - Theßf. are twenty-seven lawyers and twenty-five farmers in the Ohio Legislature.