Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

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Leland Stanfobd offers Gen. Grant and his family a home with him as long as he lives. It is estimated that there are over 1,500 acres in strawberries in Marion County, 111. Guy Johnson, of Clinton, N. Y., the last slave in the State, who was emancipated in 1812, is dead. Judah P. Benjamin's daughter married a French officer of the staff, and resides in Paris with her mother. Gen. Booth says to his Salvationists: “ Shout; those who can’t stand the noise will never get to heaven.” Dr. Dio Lewis says the coming man and woman will not be smaller at the waist than at other parts of the body. During a thunder shower which passed over Shirley Village, Mass., there fell with the rain large quantities of small stones. The following is a copy of a notice pasted up in the Council Bluffs Police Station: “No loafers allowed here, except police.” A personal item in a Rutland, Vt., paper says that “S. M. Dorr has lost a valuable cow which licked a pail of green paint.” Louisiana now has a State Weather Service Bureau of its own, and doesn’t care whether “ Old Prob” prognosticates or hot. The highest rate of the Western Union Telegraph Company at present is $1 for ten words between Portland, Me., and San Francisco. A South Carolina man thinks that he has discovered that a chalk-line about a barrel will keep away the ants, and is mad because the Government will not give him a patent German measles is epidemic in Syracuse. Old people take it