Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sangutnite, a new mineral, contains silver, arsenic and sulphur. A New York messenger boy ran away with SI,OOO the other day. Walpole was right Everybody has his price. Give a messenger boy enough and he will even run. Very few girls like to be called soft, but very few girls reach 20 without frankly confessing to themselves that Jhere was a time in their lives when that word just fitted them. What has become of the old-fash-ioned parent who. whenever his boy received a whipping at schcol, gave him another walloping at home to show that he did not approve of his badness? Two Japanese mining engineers are traveling among the coal mines in the West, studying American mining methods, which they desire to apply to the development of the coal deposits of Japan. The Japanese murderer of a restaurant keeper in Seattle. Wash., threw his sword into the bay. A vigorous search resulted in finding the weapon, which had marks showing it to be 260 years old. Dallas Hunter, the fat boy of Green County, Indiana, is dead. He was only 14 years old, but he w eighed 249 pounds, and he died in his sleep, practically smothered in his superabundance of adipose matter. An artist has been looking through the Boston cemeteries and finds to Lis surprise that there is no monument in any of the cemeteries there that is worth over $5,000. The Chadwick tomb cost about $25,000, but this is not classed with monuments. The Paris street extending from Neuilly to St. Denis is lined with tumbledown tenements that are said to shelter more vice and iniquity than can be found in any other spot in the world. The houses throng with criminals. The street is known as the “Route de la Revolte.”

The French Society of Men of Letters, which held its convention in Paris on April 6, has a pension fund of $300,000 for old and indigent members. Its whole property is worth between ssoo,ooo'and $609,000. Its annual expenditures are SIOO,OOO, or about $5,000 less than its receipts. The commander of the St. Petersburg police has issued an order that if a house owner is in arrears with his water taxes be is to be compelled by police measures to jay them. But the water supply is not to be cut off, in order that the tenants shall not suffer for the delinquency of the landlord. There is not a mile of railway in Brown “County, Indiana, nor within six miles of it. Nashville, the county seat, has 400 inhabitants and but one brick structure, the Court House. The jail is built of logs. The county has not sent any one to the penitentiary for several years, and there is not a saloon within its limits. An assessor at Bucktown, Ind., called at the house of an old woman whose furniture was valued at 50 cents. Under the law he had to fix the value at sl, which would make her tax a fraction over 1 cent. Before leaving he discovered that the old dame was the owner of six dogs, on which she was assessed sll. General Butler lives on a scale that most millionaires would regard as extravagant, keeping up establishments in Washington, Boston and Lowell. Despite the belief to the contrary, he is a remarkably generous man, and gives away more money than do many people who have reputations for philanthropy.

The expedition sent out by the Vienna Academy of Science to explore the Mediterranean found its greatest depth to be something over two ard one-quarter miles, between Molla and Cerigo. On the African coast, where the water is clearer, white metal plates could be seen at a depth of 144 feet. Sensitive plates were acted upon by the light at a depth of over 1,600 feet. Among the curious trust funds in the hands of the overseers of the poor of Boston is one the income of which is to be applied to the purchase of tea, ooffee, chocolate and sugar for ihe refreshment of those persons who, in the providence of God, are or shall be obliged to seek refuge in the almshouse after having lived respectably, but always giving preference to the pious poor. The latest fish story comes from Ocala, Fla., where the cook at a restaurant is alleged to have found a diamond ring in a fish’s stomach. The ring is of handsome design and contains seven small stones set in a circle, with one larger than the rest in the center. Inside the band on the lower side are engraved the letters S. E. L. The ring is a valuable one, probably worth from SIOO to $125. Medical specialists are numerous nowadays, but they were quite common in Egypt at least 450 years before the Christian era. Here is what Herodotus, the father of history, savs of the m: “The Egyptians have among them a great multitude of