Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

George W. Cable, the novelist, weighs only 100 pounds. Thirty thousand patents were issued hist year in Great Britain, against 20,000 hi this country. Fashionable young ladies must have photographs of their pet cats to be up to the times nowadays. Nearly SBO,OOO was sunk at Portland, Oregon, by a St. Louis journalist in endeavoring to establish the Northwest, which has ceased to exist. Probably the oldest log cabin in the country is now standing near Montgomery, Ala. It was built in 1798, and for fifty years previous to the rebellion was occupied as a house for farm slaves. Andrew J. Weaver, of Greenville, Pennsylvania, drove his daughter from the house, broke seme furniture, and then killed himself with a revolver. On several occasions he had shown signs of insanity. He was a brother of Gen. Weaver, of lowa. The late cold spell in Southern Oregon killed thousands of robina and bluejava.