Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1890 — Pertinent Paragraphs. [ARTICLE]

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A neoko at Perry, Da., is said to weigh 500 pounds and to have gained 100 pounds within a year. A Macomb County, Michigan, farmer has harvested 604 bushels of good oats from twelve acres of ground. A Kentucky widower has just mar* ried his seventh wife. He is 83 and his new wife over fifty years of age. Ix 1889 Russian peasants killed or captured 318 boars, 85 wolvos, 503 foxes, 14,834 hares, 7'1,»60 squirrels, 539 martens, etc. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth a clergyman whose benefice did not exceed £2O per annum was allowed to follow a trade. A snake cucumber seven foet long and resembling a hideous green snake coiled, is one of the curiosities of Los Angeles, Cal. At tho National Library of Paris a MS. of tho Bible has been discovered. It was written in 1259 in a suburb of Perpignan and is richly illuminated, It is illegal to sHI cigarettes to boys in Cincinnati, and dll bdys found smoking are to be arrested and held until they tell where tlifty got the prohibited articles. , A youno woman who has a dressmaking establishment in New York makes her rent by storing furs, wraps, and winter dresses for her customers during the warm weather. The military authorities at St. Petersburg have decreed that in future foreigners shall not be allowed to serve in the army unless they are willing to become Russian citizens. The total imports of bananas at New York during the year 1889 aggregated 3,636,593 bunches, to which Jamaica contributed about one-third, qia, 346,062, while Colon sent 310,528..:,:. * j, : What is probably the largest rose bush in the world grows alongside the residence of Dr. E. B. Matthews, in Mobile, Ala. It was planted in 1813, and now covers the entire house and neighboring trees. It is now asserted that the "ghost of Bartholomew, hanged at the Easton County (Pa.) prison for tho murder of Washington Dillard, visits;itlj&' jail the first night-following each new moon. Neak&y $30,000 'worth of half francs wero found among the effects of a rich lawyer who died recently in Paris. It was his stock of small coin from which ~ ho daily gavq largo sums to beggars.