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

CLIPPINGS.

A Winona (Minn.) hermit flies a black flag over his hut. He is not troubled with agents. Edison hasn’t stopped inventing for good. He is busy just now looking up safe and profitable investments. A spabbow has built her nest in the left hand of the bronze statue of Daniel Webstor in Central Bark, New York. A fashion able young lady in New York has had her hair tinted a beautiful chestnut color to match her saddle-horse’s mane. | Babe and lovely orchids are the flower of the moment in London. Everybody who is anybody wears them in shoulder knot or buttonhole. The greenfinch begins to pipe at 1:30 o’clock in the morning, the blackcap at 2:30, and the quail half an hour later. The sparrow is lazy and the last to rise. Messbs. Beck, Edmunds, and Ingalls, are said to be the only present members of the United States Senate who take snuff, and they do not do so regularly. The Aldrich family, which will soon hold a convention at Saratoga, includes Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, and three judges, respectively of California, Georgia, and Massachusetts. An Englishman has written a three*- volume work on the danger of yawning.