Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1888 — Had a Doubt. [ARTICLE]

Had a Doubt.

A well-known thief having been put on trial for an offense, and all the testimony going to show that he was guilty, the Judge charged the jury to give him the benefit of any doubt. This resulted in a disagreement, of course, and when an explanation was asked for one of the doubters replied: “I am certain the fellow was guilty, but I had a doubt whether the court wanted him convicted or not.” Moral: The court probably didn’t. —Detroit Free Press. Paper timber is made which possesses many advantages over wood and yet eosts less. The time is not far distant when people will not only live in paper houses, and use paper furniture and utensils, but our gas, water, and sewage will be conducted through paper pipes. It is much stronger and more resisting than wood, and, when specially prepared, than iron. Paper car-wheels are in extensive use now, and recent experiments in Germany have produced a successful paper rail, so that it appears to be only a question of time when our great railway system will be equipped with paper rails, 'paper wheels, and even paper cars.

Clovis, founder of the French monarchy, killed Alaric the Goth at the battle of Vougle, near Poictiers, united his conquests from the Loire to the Pyrenees, and made Paris his capital in 587.