Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1884 — SAYINGS AND DOINGS. [ARTICLE]

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Gov. Adams, of Nevada, is a “natural faster,” sometimes going a week without food. Congressman Seth L. Midliken, of Maine, employs as his private secretary his daughter, Miss Maud Milliken. The women in the smithy town of Lye Waste, England, work in the shops, and are often more muscular than the men. As Mr. Jay Gould’s income is estimated to be $9 a minute, a statistician says that he lost $135 by the change from solar to standard time. Mrs. George Stoddard, of Newport, N. Y., while carriage riding, stopped to water her horse, when he hacked into the creek and drowned her. In a recent document put forth by the Associated Charities of Boston, it is stated that the four causes of poverty are drunkenness, ignorance, laziness, and pride. Shawneetown, HI., is the first place in the West to report wheat cutting.