Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

CLIPPINGS.

Thebe are thirty professional fortunetellers in Chicago. It costs not less than $33,000,000 annually to support the dogs of the United States. Thebe is a boy in Detroit who rejoices in the name of Bjoernstjerne Bjoerson Bjones. Queen Victobia is about to have a lifesize bronze statue of John Brown placed in the hall at Balmoral. Thbee hundred pounds of honey was obtained from a bee-tree recently cut near Chehalis, Montana. Among the brass bands that participated in the semi-centennial in Rochester, N. Y., was the Salamanca Indian brass band. In Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y., a robin whipped a cat. The latter came too near the nest where the bird had its young. A pabty of men digging in the bed of a dry pond near Americus, Ga., found a live . alligator at the depth of seven feet. It was eight feet long and was in a torpid condition. Mbs. J. R. Hawley is described as one of the most remarkable women of the day. When her husband went to the war she went to the hospital to nurse soldiers, and remained there through the conflict.

In Zacatlan, Mexico, a Peddlers’ Protective Association, is being formed.