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

HERE AND THERE.

An Indian chief has married a Washington washerwoman. An Indian appeared in Austin, Nev., theother day with ten eagles, which he tried unsuccessfully to sell for sls each. The Altai estates of the Czar of Russia; cover 170,000 square miles, being about three times the size of England and Wales, A liveoak tree at Indian River Narrows, Fla., measures twenty-three feet and ten inches in circumference six feet from the ground. White stockings are coming once again, into fashion in London, from the crusade by the doctors against colored wear as slow poisoners. A little girl in Concord, N. C., swallowed a lightning bug, which caused her death. This is the first death from Buch a cause on record. The color line seems to have cropped out in England. The British Lords of the Admiralty have issued a stringent order that no negroes shall be entered for service in the navy withpnt their special sanction. Colorado contributes 100,000 colts tothe country’s resources.this year.