Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Pauper labor is not the worst thing that can happen to a country. There is the pauper who won’t labor, for instance. Our distinguished red brother, Two Strikes, says he wants no more war. He is manifestly beginning to realize that one more strike would put him ous. Keixdeer flesh, which is said to be tender, delicious, and nutritious, is regularly exported from the Arctic Zonas to Hamburg, where it meets eager demand, at about 13 cents a pound. - An old apple-woman known as “Kitty” has just died in London at the age of 104. She kept a little stand near St. Janies’ Hall, where she often sold candy to Lord 'Nelson and apples to Pitt and Fox. A Detroit policeman has been acquitted upon trial for not entering the church upon his beat in which a mad dog was creating a terrible commotion. He swore that he thought they were only electing a deacon. Object glasses for microscopes are now made in Germany of glass that contains phosphoric and boracic acid. It is stated that with lenses made of this glass an object one-twenty-thou-sandth of an inch can be distinctly seen. Judge Thayf.r of Philadelphia says that no person can be legally compelled to leave his house and be treated in a hospital, even if he have small-pox or other contagious disease. It is the right of the patient to stay in his house if he chooses. The depth at which some of the Belgian coal mines are worked is something prodigious. In a pit at Flenn the work is now done at 3,700 feet; in a pit at Fremerin at 2,800 feet, and in the St. Andre pit at Montigny-sur-Sambre at 3,000 feet.

A beautiful piece of sculpture fr m ancient Ephesus has reached the British Museum. The relic forms part of a marble bull, the bead being exquisitely carved, while the figure of a goddess appears on t-ae body. It is supposed to be 2,000 years old. William Woodward, of Baltimore, is 90 years old, which is not wonderful, but the fact that for seventy-two years he has been a Sunday-school teacher is. A reception in his honor occurred ; on the recent anniversary of the com- | mencement of his labors in this field. The present freshman class of Princeton College has very sensibly decided to abandon hazing and greet next year’s freshman class with a banquet instead of the old-time nightly visitations. Hazing is a barbarous custom which ought to be dropped in all colleges. Annie Louise Carey, at one time considered among the greatest of contraltos, is a large blonde woman in whose handsome countenance beams the benevolence in her heart. Domestic affairs and-chaiity work now engage the greater source o; her daily time and attention. Four spinsters of O’Fallon, Mo., have become famous by the new paint on their joint residence. They couldn’t agree on the colors, so they decided that each should have her favorite color bn a portion of the house, and then they drew lots for the portions. The house is an artistic revelation. That surpassingly smart Washington man who swore that he was worth between “five and six thousand dollars,” and then explained that he meant “between five dollars and six thousand dollars,” stands a good chance to live in the penitentiary between five and six thousand years for his little joke. Daffodils numbering 2,000,000 are exhibited at famous gardens near London. Among the daffodils the most historic specimen is the quaint double Queen Anne’s daffodil, which has puzzled botanists these three hundred years, because it destroyed their theory that of every double flower there is a single one. Thirty years ago Charles Pinkham, now an Oakland (Cal.) car-driver, at the time 11 years old, inhaled into the right lung a large pine nut. The doctors tried everything for the boy, but did not extract the.obstruction that was surely killing him, until one of them, through an external incision, sucked the nut out. A tarpon weighing ‘305 pounds is said to have been caught at Fort Meyers, Fla., with hook and reel, a few days ago by a Kentucky lady, after a hard and gallant fight of one hour and twenty-five minutes. It is said to have been the largest fish of the kind ever caught in that manner. It was 7 feet 3 inches long. Mrs. Lease, Ihe Kansas Alliance woman, recently received a letter from Ben Butterworth notifying her that she had recently been elected to membeiship in the “College of Thinkers” of the world. She has also received an offer of $l5O aud all expenses to make three speeches before the Chauteuqua meeting at Atlanta. "—■* 1 ■ ■" "■ One of William K. Vanderbilt’s greatest hobbies is the raising of choice •trains of poultry. He has given a