Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — MISSING LINKS. [ARTICLE]

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A movement is on foot to erect a statue of Gen. Robert Toombs, at Atlanta, Ga. China has 563 books on behavior, 361 of which refer directly to the ceremonial of dining. At Penobscot, Me., a poster announcing a church festival had this postscript: “No flirting allowed.” Dan Rice, the one time noted circus clown, is lecturing in Texas, and is said to receive SSOO a week for his oratorical ground and lofty tumbling. Grace Hubbard, a graduate of the lowa University, has adopted the p. session of civil engineer and is employed by the United States government survey in Montana to make maps. A revolver in a glass case, surrounded by pictures of beats and surmounted by the motto, “Pay or Pray,” aids a Nebraska photographer in conducting his business on the cash plan. Ex-Senator Bradbury of Maine, who served with Webster, is 82 years old, but has a firm step and bears few marks of great age. He was a collegemate of Hawthorne and Longfellow at Bowdoin. Judge Noah Davis was asked to write an opinion in favor of a proposed mar-riage-license law. His answer was: “I believe true public policy requires that marriage should be made easy and divorce next to impossible.” Hereafter all the Chinese going over the southern division of the Grand Trunk Railroad will be passed in bond, and the conductors will be held responsible to see that none of the Mongolians are allowed to stop in Canada. Boston experts criticise Howell’s last story, where he gives a carefully elaborated scene in a police station, but represents the captain as asking the young woman who makes a complaint to him what her age, height and weight are. The cost of suppressing locusts in Cyprus since the British occupation amounts to over $330,000. But the government engineer states that, large as the expenditure has been, it is certain that it has already been recovered by the island many times over in the value of the crops saved. A discussion going on in Boston as to who is the oldest living member of the Masonic fraternity in New England has brought forth the names of several who have belonged to the order for more

years.” Henner, the Alsatian, is one of the few artists in Paris who sell all their pictures for good prices in hard times as well as good. To a friend who admiringly remarked to him that he must be making $40,000 a year, “Very likely,” he said; “I keep no account of it. But I might earn still more if 1 were not bothe. <1 and hindered. These bourgeois are such cattle.” Alexander G. Drake, a colored carpenter of Louisville, is coming into prominence as a temperance revivalist lie is fifty-nine years old, an ex-slave, and is said to be doing good. His plan of work is to secure signers to a pledge which binds them for three months, a year, or for life, as they may elect The pledge is unique, and reads: “I do sincerely hope that if I drink beer or whisky (date named here), without being considered sick, that bad luck may be mine the remainder of my life, so help me God.” Gen. Billot, the new French embassador to St Petersburg, has never before served in a diplomatic capacity. He is tactiturn, cold, and circumspect; he knows how to select those only who can serve him, and he neglects those who only seem of no use to him or who can not be dangerous to his purposes. He speaks fluently on subjects which he understands and maintains an impcrturable silence when subjects arc discussed with which he is not familiar. He is every inch a soldier, and his bearing in a drawing-room is all that can be desired. The old Duke of Cambridge, comman-der-in-chief of the British army and cousin of her majesty the queen, is fond of attending banquets and making afterdinner speeches. He is also fond of champagne, and sometimes mistakes the white shoulder of the lady next him for a pillow, to the amuseincut of the guests and the bewilderment of tiie lady. At a banquet given a few days ago to the retiring Spanish ambassador, the duke woke ap the courage of the late King Alfonso “amid the poo illation of Madrid and other o r ■. si aliens such as cholera ami earth quakes.”

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