Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A bedtime luncheon of lettuce induces sleep. A very large acreage is devoted to grape growing in New Jersey, and the area is extending yearly. The Ceylon pearl fishery last season -was the second largest on record during the present century. The cheapest car fare known is said to be the 3 cents fare on the Pittsburg Traction Boad for a distance of six miles. Portuguese immigrants have begun to arrive in considerable numbers, many of them bound for the winegrowing districts of California. The Alta California died affirming with its latest breath, as the result of forty years of experience, that a decent paper couldn’t make a living in San Francisco. Major Turner Goldsmith, of Atlanta, enjoys the distinction of having lived under twenty-one Presidents. He is eighty-nine years old and has a host of descendants. A number of Parisian ladies recently applied hair bleach to their locks with the intention of turning them red, but only succeeded in producing a beautiful shade of green. Constant rains are very hard on women who are out a good deal. Since the bustle went out of style, they have had no way of carrying their gossamers in readiness for a storm. Walter Haynes has lived upon Haynes Hill, Brimfield, Mass, since he was 18 months old. He is 101 years now, has a wife of 93 and a sister of 83, and the horse he yet drives about confesses to 26 Years.

Brigham Young’s grave is covered by a plain and inconspicuous slab of granite. It lies in an inclosed city lot in Salt Lake City, surrouned by a low iron fence. A few of the prophet’s wives are buried near. The model husband was seen on a Detroit car recently. He had a letter written by his wife stuck in his hat band so as to have a sure thing on mailing it. There was not a lady in the car who did not catch on and smile approvingly. The right of felling trees over no fewer than 665,000 square miles of the Kerassond forests, and 497,000 square miles of the Fireboli forests, near Trebizond, has been granted by the Turkish Government to private speculators. The diamond eutters of New York earn an average salary of S6O a week, and are considered the best workmen in their line in the world. Twenty years ago nearly all the diamonds sold in this country were cut and polished in Amsterdam. It was long thought that the water from melted snow was the purest of all water. This idea has beer proved incorrect, as the reverse is true. Snow is really a purifier of the atmosphere, attracting to it as it falls, various impurities; and these are found in the snowwater. * One advantage enjoyed by those who live in Madagascar, where the Queen distingqishes Ijerself from the common run of people by’takin g abath ohcS i year, is that they are not likely to become deeply interested in a charming story and have it end in a soap advertisement. There is a paper in Harlan County, Kv., which may fairly claim to be entirely free from sensationalism. The other day it contained the following laconic paragraph: “Aleck Smith was killed yesterday by a man by the name of Holbrook. We did not learn the particulars.” A second-hand mattress, which for two months had been in the possession of its purchaser, aresidentof Mebanes, N. C., caused him some uneasiness the other night, because of a hard lump which had worked toward the surface He investigated, and found that the lump was a wad of greenbacks amounting to sl,Oll. After many years of rather ignoble neglect the town of Ayr, in Sco land, is at last od the point of setting up a bronze statue of Bobert Burns in ai open space in the town, and that, too, paid for by local subscriptions. It has just been successfully cast at a foundry near London, but it is the work of the Scotch sculptor, Lawson. Solid bodies can transmit sounds to a great length of space, the scratch of a pin at one end of a beam is quickly and distinctly heard at the other end; ’ and it is believed by scientists that a bar of iron ten miles long would transmit sounds with a speed second only to electricity. If this is a fact short distance telephoning as a complex question is easy of solution. Sam Jones proposed in a sermon the other day that the people arise in a rebellion against the liquor traffic and spill blood if necessary, adding: “I am willing to get at the head of the procession with my rifle.” As the evangelist made this remark he rolled his quid to the other side of his mouth and looked so fierce and bloodthirsty that his satanic majesty in the back row