Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1885 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

Miss Anna Dickinson is seriously out of health. Pkofessob Huxley has become incurably deaf. The Evening Cyclone is the name of a new paper in Texas. A SIOO,OOO laboratory is to be built at the Johns Hopkins University. Bichabd Grant White’s library brought SB,OOO at a recent sale. The first dining-car has just been attached to one of the British railways. The last known pensioner of the war of 1812 died in Lowell, Mass., last week. Nearly four hundred window-glass facory pots are out of blast in the country. The authorities of British Columbia clip and bum the pigtails of Chinese convicts. The new postmistress in a town in Indiana writes her official name “Mrs. J. Smith, P. Mrs.” The play of “Adonis” has run 450 nights in New York, surpassing to an extraordi-' nary degree the length of most Americar performances in one city.