Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — MISSING LINKS. [ARTICLE]

MISSING LINKS.

A movement is on foot to erect a statue of Gen. Robert Toombs, at Atlanta, Ga. China has 563 books on behavior, 861 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 down, 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 profession 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 Bow* doin.

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 slicvdd be made easy and divorce next to impossible.”

Hereafter all the Chinese going over the southern division of the Grand Trunk Railroad will bo passed in bond, and the conductors will bo 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, largo 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 hav- belonged to the order for more than half a century, among thcnl David McDaniels, of Morristown, Vt., who joined ifk 1812, when twenty-one years old.

The usual story of the remarkable travels of a pin is at hand. This time the scene is laid in Newton, lowa,where thisteen years ago Mrs. Cyrus Gage dropped a pin in her ear. The pin Tn course of time dropped into her throat and was swallowed. The other day a doctor took it out of her left leg near the ankle.

One of the most ingenious processes which has lately come into vogue in the treatment of iron—an Austrian invention—is that of giving to the metal a silver surface, this being effected by first covering the iron with mercury and then silver by the galvanic process. By heating to 300 degrees, C., the mercury evaporates and the silver layer is fixed.

“Lord Rowton,” says the London World, “is very angry about the publication of Lord Beaconsfield’s early letters. He regards it as a direct and unwarrantable infringement of his rights as his late chief literary executor, and as calculated to diminish the interest of the great work which has occupied his exclusive attention during the last two 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. d and hindered. These bourgeois are such cattle.”

The “Old Reliable” is under the management of Norm. Warner & Sons. They keep constantly on hand an extensive stock of stoves, in great variety, hardware, agricultural implements, etc. They know when, where and how to buy, and put their goods on the market at bottom prices.

An End to Bone Scraping. Edward Shepherd,ol’ Hrrisburg, 111 ‘■ays: ‘Having received sc much benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty to let sutlering humanity knoja it. Hrve had a running sue on my leg t r eight years; my doctors told me 1 w< ■ Id have t<> have the bone scr ip/d or .eg amputated 1 used, instead, thr e bottlrs ot Electric Bitters and sex er. boxes Bucklen’s Arnica Halve and my leg,is now sound and well,” Electee Ritters are sold at fifty cents, a hottie, and Arnica Salve a. ; 2 5. per box by F. B.