Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — A Jury’s Revenge. [ARTICLE]

A Jury’s Revenge.

A Leadville jury recently becoming disgusted with the “sass” administered to themselves as well as the lawyers and witnesses, by the Judge, ordered the Sheriff to lock the latter up for a couple of weeks, and, to his honor's great exasperation, he was Incontinently lugged off to jail and placed in durance vile, while the case went on smoothly with the most popular barkeeper in town occupying the judicial chair. The best way to remove the smell of paint is to first render the room as nearly as possible air-tight by closing the windows, doors and other openings Place a vessel of lighted charcoal in the room, and throw on it two or three handfuls of juniper berries. After twentyfour hours the smell will have entirely disappeared. Another method of doing the same thing is to plunge a handful of new hay into a pail of water and let it stand in the newly painted room. The annual snowfall in Colorado is enormous. At Dillon, according to the hnterprise, the snowfall there from the first day of November, 1889, to May 10, 1890, was twenty feet ten inches. At Kokomo in 18S4-5, by actual daily measurements, something like ninety-six feet of the beautiful fell between Nov. 1 and June 1. Of course, it kept on settling all the time, and when spr.ng opened up there wasn’t more than six or seven feet on the ground. Mr. Sydney J. Hickson, an English naturalist who has spent some time on the Island of Celebes, has maae some extensive observations of the corals of the Malay Archipelago. In regard to the food of corals, he is Inclined to the belief that many of them may be vegetable feeders. No doubt the water in the vicinity of mangrove swamps is full of the debris of leaves and wood, which, sinking to the bottom, must enter the mouths of the coral animals. It is suggested that This may explain the vigorous growths often seen near extensive •wuapa.