Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

CLIPPINGS.

Gladstone expects soon to make his final exit from public life. The Bible mentions 620 places in Palestine, west of the Jordan, and 430 have been identified, 132 by the staff of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is out with a plea for new divorce laws, in which the rights’* of father, mother, and child shall be equally guarded. A society 350 strong has heen organized in Toronto “for tho purpose of propagating among the people ideas of independence and separation from England." A Georgia boy broke his arm while pitching a ball. The surgeon said a violent use of the cords and muscles in an effort to “curve” had caused the fracture. Of 4,692,348 persons returned by the oensus of Germany in 1882 as engaged in agricultural work, 1,230,080, or nearly a million and a quarter, are females. William H. Vanderbilt’s account with Maud S. shows a profit of $19,000, nearly 95 per cent., leaving out the expense of keeping the pretty beast and her driver.