Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Six hotels have already failed in New York since Jan. 1. Eating forty-two oranges at one sitting was the feat accomplished the other daj by a man at Crescent City. Fla. Among Rhode Island's exhibits at the New Orleans Exposition is a heavy steel chain forged by a female blacksmith of that State. A perfect skeleton, to which was attached a ball and chain, was lately unearthed twenty-five feet below the surface of the earth, near Savannah, Ga. The clerk in a real estate office in Philadelphia who executes the handsomest deeds that reach the City Recorder’s office, writes always with a stub pen and with the head of the blank toward him, thus writing upside down. The story is being extensively circulated that an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Burgettstown, who is a great domino player, was leading in prayer, and instead of finishing wi:h the usual amen, closed by saying “domino.” All the horse earn in Montevideo and Buenos Ayres come from ihe United Stites.