Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

CLIPPINGS.

Lorillard made $84,000 on the turf last year. Commercial travelers say the South is now the best place for their operations. It is quite the fashion in Paris to celebrate a divorce by a dinner, ball, or other festival. Mrs. Lucy Stone believes there will some day be a woman President of the United States. Of the forty-nine railways in Russia only four use stood, notwithstanding every line runs more or less through immense forests. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt, during the last year, has spent over SIO,OOO relieving old Staten Island friends of his whose homes were about to be sold on foreclosure of their mortgages. Sir Walter Raleigh once asked Queen Elizabeth to smoke his pipe. She tried it once, and only once. It is a significant faet that inside of a year sho ordered his head to be cut off. A German histologist says a man has a totally new brain every sixty days.