Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

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Fleetwood, Pa., claims a bull-frog measuring eighteen inches from nose to stem. It is said that one-quarter of the visitors to Saratoga are made ill by too much mineral water. Prof. Greener, the colored graduate of Harvard, threatens to write a novel, based on race distinctions. Florence Nightingale is 64, and is held in great reverence still wherever she goes in Europe. Smugglers have been carrying watches into Canada hidden in holes scooped in copies of the Bible. Yellow fever, which is now raging epidemio in some parts of Mexioo, has shown its eccentricity by attacking cattle. A California Indian recently took over $7,000 worth of gold from a “pocket” he found in the mountains of Shasta County. An insane inventor in Connecticut has invented a locomotive which will allow two trains to pass each other on the same track. Nervous Boston ladies, left without male protectors in the house at night, m»V« themselves secure by sprinkling the stairs with tacks. Paper money is 10 per cent, more valuable than coin in China.