Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — BRIEFS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEFS.

The ten German universities matriculated 12,708 students for the winter course. Mrs. Strong is the name of the first cotton raiser in California. She raised lot) bales last year. Beecher says that "Jonathan Edwards* sermons were made for hell, and ought to be sent to hell.” Bismarck is becoming regular in his habits. But that does not compensate for bis-exelu-sion of the American hog. Mrs. John Jacob Astor has sent 1,033 homeless children to the South and West during the last few years at an expense of nearly $16,000. An international agricultural exhibition is to be held at Amsterdam next August, and valuable prizes will be offered for every description of live stock. Over 34,000 of the 4,440,822 pieces of mail matter that were sent to the Dead Letter Office last year contained checks, money, to the amount of about $1,030,000.