Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

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A Minneapolis man has a pet hog which follows him wherever he goes. AlvXn Clark, most noted of telescope makers, has completed his eightieth year. The British Government spends about $5,000 a year in the photography of criminals. “Extra Billy” Smith, once Governor of Virginia, has just celebrated his eightyseventh birthday. In Philadelphia there is a sect of religious believers who worship a woman under the belief that she is a “daughter of God. ” The woman died not long &go and her heirs are now disputing as to her possessions. Israel Coe, of Waterbury, Conn., is the only survivor of the State Legislature of 1824, of which he was the youngest member. He is 90 years old, in full mental and physical vigor, and is not a Prohibitionist. Mr. Moody, with his by no means silent partner, Sankey, is at work at Portland, Me#