Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

Peter McCraiii died in Cranston, R. L„ jail, where he was committed for debt. Two hundred hair-pins were found in> the stomach of a cow killed in Logan County, Ky. \ Poor old Vanderbilt has left only $64,000,000 registered Government 4 per cent, bonds. He gave his son for .pocket moneys7,ooo,ooo. The pronunciation of Joaquin should be* as if spelled Wah-keen, giving the “a” the* sound it has in ball, and accenting the second syllable. Mulberry, Ohio, has a colored citizen, named William Long, who claims to be 145. years old, and isn't sure but that he saw Christopher Columbus. A Boston woman warns train-boy® through the Globe that “if they throw anyof Col. IngersqU’s lectures in my lap I shall certainly throw them out of the window.” Munkacsy’s picture of the painted for the collector, Sedelmeyer, is so big that it required many horses and men to transport it from the painter’s studio to the gallery, which had to be enlarged in order to receive it