Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — A LADY BOBOLINK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A LADY BOBOLINK.

A YorNA man walked in his sleep one night last week, at Slaterville, Ga., and when he awoke he found himself at a grindstone sharpening his knife. The women of Anam wear a hat that is like a large barrel cover, being twen-ty-seven inches in diameter. Six or seven silk cords as thick as a quill are suspended on each side. Farmer Camp employs 250 Piute Indians in picking hops near Folsom, Sacramento County. Their time is to be kept by a young woman of the tribe, who is a graduate of the Reno High School. Ismael Pasha, the ex-Khedive of Egypt, is practically a prisoner at his residence on the Bosphorus. The Turkish government recently refused him permission to go to Carlsbad to take the waters for his health. A German from Boston recently died while on a visit to Germany. While living his weight was 350 pounds. His body was cremated and the ashes, weighing six ounces, were mailed to his friends in the Hub City. There is a negro woman who lives near Athens who prepares herself for death every night, and who is always terribly surprised to And herself alive mornings She wishes to die in a blue gown, in which she arrays herself before lying down every night. Rev. Dr. Meredith, who, next to Dr. Talmage, preaches to the largest audiences in Brooklyn, was a sailor boy. It was in that capacity that he first arrived in San Francisco, where he remained for some time and then went to Boston to study for the ministry. The big crowd at a county fair in West Virginia had it in their minds that a balloonist went up inside a balloon, and, therefore, when the aeronaut undertook to go up in a car attached they sassed him with bitter tongues and pelted him with the fruit of the hen. A novel idea in connection with the national encampment of the Grand Army in Detroit next year already is broached. It provides, instead of the customary parade, for all the veterans present to be grouped upon a huge raft upon the river to be viewed from passing boats. An officer in the navv has invented a method of removing stranded vessels, which is highly commended by naval authorities. As a device of this kind has always been one of the greatest necessities of the navy, it seems proper to remark again that necessity is the mother of invention.

The Czar's personal body-guard of private police consists of fifteen specially picked Corsicans, mature and tried men, chosen and trained by M. Celertin Pietri, nephew of Napoleon lll.’s Minister of Police. These men have to keep watch in the kitchens and private apartments, -while some of them act as assistant cooks. It is intended gradually to increase the corps as suitable men can be found. A short courtship is reported from Maine. Deacon Marvin, one of the early settlers of Buckfield, one day mounted his horse with only a sheepskin for a saddle, rode in front of the house where Betty Lee lived, and without dismounting, requested Betty to come to him. On her coming he told her that the Lord had sent him there to marry her. Betty, without much hesitation, replied: “The Lord’s will be done.” The Memphis Avalanche tells the story of James Miller, who left a fortune to his early sweetheart, Jennie James, of James’ Switch, Ind., and describes the woman as the “slanderbearer” of the chief Sunday-school of the place. The Avalanche may have meant to say “standard-bearer,” but if it doesn’t hurry up and apologize for the work of its depraved compositors it may have a libel suit on its hands in no time. A log cutter found a bottle containing SI,OOO in gold dust near Sly Park, El Dorado County, Cal. He was sawing a tree down when he struck something. He could not imagine what the saw could be striking in the middle of a tree three feet thick! After the tree was down and an examination made a bottle containing SI,OOO in gold dust was found in the center of the tree. It was probably put in there many years ago by some old miner. Some of the bravest girls in our large cities today are making homes for themselves in but one good-sized room, and how they manage would make an interesting contribution to household lore. They eat the food which they have prepared and honestly earned at the counter or in the office, and the time which they count their own is largely occupied in the necessary and pleasant work of keeping their house in order, and they thoroughly appreciate t2>e privilege of possessing and caring wmetbiDg of their own. ' APottstown, Pa., pastor has been re«gS£sted to resign his charge because it fcs* been found by the church authority* that he used undue influence to sebis position by electioneering at a ekrsreh picnic. “Electioneering” at a efatfxb picnic must necessarily consist is> doing the agreeable to the sisters «n 4 itm children, and if a shepherd is

not to bo allowed to frisk about with the lambs on such festive occasions pastoral life will hardly be worth living for some of ’em, that’s all. The race problem was on the wav to a solution in Reading, Pa., when an untoward event checked its progress. A young white girl of that place was beloved of two gentlemen of color and would have undoubtedly married one of them—as soon as he could have gotten a divorce from his wife. Unfortunately a fierce quarrel broke out between the two rivals and in the conflict one of them was slain. As the other one goes to prison the girl is disconsolate and the settlement of the race difficulty is indefinitely postponed. In a town not a thousand miles from this city, recently, an Englishman at a public reception was making himself an ass generally by his vanity and arrogance, says the New York Tribune. In conversation with a bright American lady there was a reference made to some families of America. “Do yon know,” remarked the Briton, with his most supercilious drawl, “that it always amuses me when any one speaks of old families in the States, because it is so utterly absurd, you know. Of oourse in England it is different. For instance, I cr.n traoe my family back to William the Conqueror without the slightest trouble.” “Indeed,” replied the lady with a merrv twinkle, “I ana surprised at. that; I had an idea that yon could go back at least as far Baalam’s ass.”

The new military law of Frence has considerably increased her fighting material. According to the figures of the War Minister, recently published, the French army on a war footing number* at present four million five hundred thousand traiued soldiers. The German army is now numerically inferioi to that of France; and the French say that, although the German population is considerably greater than that ot France, the male population of the twc countries is about the same. In othei words, the emigration from Germany has left an excess of female population at home, and has drained off an immense number of fighting men. This state of affairs is probably the real cause of the pacific protestations of the young Emperor and of the cessation of war cries in the German press. And Crispi, too, is begining to be more civil than he used to be. The fact is, the armies of Russia and France are amply able to make the triple alliance behave itself.

Mr*. Albert Barker, the Wonderful Kngliftli Whistler. Mrs. Alliert Barker, who has pnzzled London audiences with her wonderful “bird-notes,” has just been engaged for a long tour in Ireland, Scotland, and the north of England. Mrs. Barker is a daughter of one of the old English families, and, oddly enough, the subject of one of Tennyson’s best poems, which she recites; and on the maternal side she is closely allied to a noble Scotch family. When

quite a little girl she showed extraordinary dramatic talent, which, however, was promptly suppressed by her relatives, lest she might commit the fearful social sin of “going on the stage,” which twenty years ago was not quite so much in the fashion as now. After her marriage she determined to put her powers to practical use, and, by way of a compromise, studied reciting. determined, as she herself has said, “to climb to the top of the ladder.” In this she has unquestionably succeeded, as she can hardly be said to have a rival among her own sex in the branch of the profession she shines in.

MRS. ALBERT BARKER.