Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — A Boy Who Never Sweats. [ARTICLE]

A Boy Who Never Sweats.

There is a boy in Putnam County, Tennessee, a son of Jefferson Lee, 10 years of age, who, owing to the peculiar nature of his skin, has never been known to sweat a drop of perspiration in his life. Another phenomenal feature connected with the boy is that he has only four teeth, and he had those when born, having never cut nor shed any since bis birth. He is very much affected by the he gets exceedingly warm and is compelled, in order to live at all, to keep his headland body wet with cold water, and falls off to almost a skeleton, but when winter comes and cold weather sets in he is enabled to dispense with his bath and grows fat. He is said to be a sprightly boy, with plenty of sense.

In Poland the stones of engagement rings are chosen according to the month in which the engagement was made—the ruby for July, the pearl for May, the sapphire for January, for March the turquoise, which, it is believed, will turn green upon the inconstancy of the giver. The emerald, given in June, is for fidelity, and the Russians expect to have one emerald among the wedding gifts from the husband; it is the omen of certain happiness.

The Wises of "Virginia have been noted for generations as a dueling family, but they have not always accepted the challenges sent to them. It is related of Henry A. Wise that a minor politician named Finney challenged him, the message reaching him while he was playing cards. He looked up from his hand, took the challenge, and, after glancing over it, said, contemptuously: “No, tell Mr. Finney I will not fight him. I would as soon shoot at a poor blind girl. ” A deaf family in New Hampshire has beenZjtraeed back to the fourteenth.century in England, and in all that time lias regularly shown a succession of deaf mutes. In Maine there is a family in which there are ninety-five deaf mutes, all of them connected by blood or marriage. “Next to everlasting life,” says an atheist, “what is better than eternal sleep?" Nothing for yon. A man who cannot enjoy this world can hardly be expected to enjoy the next.