Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — THIS AND THAT. [ARTICLE]

THIS AND THAT.

Monkeys are coming into demand as ladies’ pets. Sam Patch, the foolhardy fellow, who made a famous leap to death, is to have a monument at Bochester. N. Y. A medical expert thinks that the large increase in rheumatism in New England is the result of the disuse of cider. In cider-drinking countries there is very little rheumatism. Maud S. weighs' 946 pounds. She is at Chester Park, Cincinnati, her old home.