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

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Foreigners own 20,647,000 acres of land in this country. It will cost Brooklyn SIOO,OOO to put the wires of her fire department under ground. The suit of the Czar of Russia consists of 105 Adjutants-General, 86 Majors-Gen-eral, and 104 aids-de-camp. Miss Kate Field has spent the winter among the Mormons of Salt Lake City, and will spend the summer at Newport. There is an unrepealed law in the District of Columbia which brands with a redhot iron the tongue of he who uses profane language. An advertisement in the Paris Figaro announces that a man of 36, titled, intelligent, and energetic, would accept any situation, even one perilous and requiring him to go far away, or marriage, in return for the payment of $20,000 of debt. Lord Shaftesbury wants the surplus of 30,000 English females sent to America.