Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

CLIPPINGS.

Paper peach baskets are in use in Maryland. All the Presidents since Lincoln have worn full beards, except President whose whiskers have the English sideboard cut. David M. Stone, editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, has not been absent, from his editorial chair for recreation for more than thirty years. A lady in New York has just finished a. silk quilt composed of 14,000 pieces, each about the size of a 10-oent piece. It took her seven years to complete the work, and it is valued at S6OO. Weston Kent, of Peoria, deposited SSO to the credit of a new-born babe, upon the agreement of the parents that the child should bear his name. The boy was christened Weston Kent Keith, and, when 21 years old, he will draw the SSO, with interest. Mr. A. Van Wagner, an American and a protege of the late Judah P. Benjamin, succeeds to the rooms, and possibly to part of the practice of the great barrister, but at present Mr. Charles Russell leads the London bar with an income of $75,000 from his practice. The Emperor of China has ordered the destruction of $4,000,000 worth of opium