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

THIS AND THAT.

G. G. Stm-es, the Republican nominee for Congress from Colorado, is said to be worth $500,000. A Wheeling man tried to kill himself because he dreamed his sweetheart had borne a negro baby. The numerous visitors to a big fair have almost unanimously voted that Johnson is the prettiest girl in San Francisco. An English manufacturer advertises that his safetymatches may be eaten by children with positive benefit to their appetite and digestion. Along the New England coast the Queen Anne style of summer cottages is being superseded by the Dutch style of the seventeenth century. The Shah of Persia, in return for the courtesies shown to him while in Paris, has presented the municipality with two camels of a variety no larger than Shetland ponies. The death is announced at Buenos Ayres of Nicholas Anchorene, who has left $12,060,000. He owned an enormous pastoral prqperty which carried 152,000 cows and 400,000 sheep. Maj. Sherry is the name of a prominent Prohibitionist in Portland, Me.