Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — More Useful than the Campaign Breed. [ARTICLE]

More Useful than the Campaign Breed.

There has occurred a phenomenon in the barn-yard of Mr. J. J. Turner that is inexplicable—a veritable rooster laying eggs. The rooster goes on the nest every day, and after the functions of the hen have been performed he comes off, utters a derisive cackle to the rest of the fowls and goes on about his business as though nothing had happened. This peculiar fowl has been watched closely, and he has been seen to go on the nest daily, come off cackling, and there was the egg. No hen was ever seen about the nest. This fowl has aroused the admiration of our soul, and is an example worthy of the emulation of the husbandman. He has seen the toils and struggles of the overworked and greatly oppressed hens and has come to their rescue and helped them to supply the demand now seriously felt in commercial circles —and at the boarding-houses. He cares nothing for a protective tariff, a tariff for revenue only, or free trade; his only desire is to meet the demands for home consumption and to see that the Christmas nog is not wanting. What the country needs most is a few more laying roosters.— Montezuma (Ga.) Record.-

Brain work, when wisely directed, adds to rather than shortens life. No class of men reach a ripe old age more certainly than the hard-working professors in the various colleges of the land. Among no class can be found more venerable men, or those whose heads can be crowned with more honors. Unlike men in other walks of life, they do not light their candles at both ends. If money making and ambition are the chief aims of life, our college professors and presidents have made Somewhat of failures. But who that looks upon the venerable ex-Presi-dent Woolsey, just retiring from active work at Yale at the age of 83, will say that his life has not been a grand success. The same could be said of a multitude of others in this honored class who have so wisely obeyed nature’s laws that fojir score finds them men of more vigor of body and brain than two-thirds of the men of other occupations and professions ten or twenty years younger.— lnter Ocean.

A prize of S3OO is offered by the Temperance Society of Paris for the best work on drinks, both temperance and alcoholic. There is a postoffice in South Carolina named Catarrh. It in not to be snemted at.