Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

! Thebe is peace in Europe—but they goon building steel ships and manufacturing great guns. The latest fad of “the 400” is to wear a diamond ring on the thumb. Probjably the nose will come next. A New Jersey man named Lockschmidt jumped into the river the other day because—well, same old reason—love laughed at him. Hailstones lately fell in Arkansas City the size of a soda biscuit. It is still a problem which baking powder concern will claim them for its own. Thebe seems to be no doubt that the Standard Oil Company has secured a permanent footing in Germany. The American hog has conquered at last. Now that Mrs. James Brown Potter, Kitty O’Shea, and Nina Van Zandt are all married, the store of romance in the world is ’way down below normal. It is claimed that Jules Verne has become a broken-down, disheartened man since Joe Mulhatton’s name became prominent ap the greatest liar on earth. A baby was sold for $1 the other day, and the seller gave a warranty deed of the property. It was probably not deemed necessary to give an abstract of title. Rud Kipling says: “I write all my poems on an empty stomach.” Any one who reads them can readily believe. They have a sensation of goneness which is accounted for.

The parents of a live baby in Nevada, Mo., sold it the other day for sl. If that child lives to become an Aiderman it will bring a much higher price than that—at least fifty cents higher. ' A lecturer in Massachusetts is trying to demonstrate to the young ladies that old maids are the salt of the earth. That may be true, but the girls prefer to be likened to the sugar of one household. Another air enthusiast dreams of constructing a balloon that will carry passengers across the Atlantic in twenty-four hours. But the air-ship record will bo made across the Styx for some time yet to come. Sing Sing now wants not only to have its prison removed elsewhere but to change its name. It may reasonably object to the prison, perhaps, but it will never find a more musical name than the one it now has. We believe that if a millionaire would devote a few of his thousands to bettering the condition of the homeless he would find flowers where he thought it was a desert, and sunshine where he thought it was a starless midnight. It is said that the Prince of Wales has been paying exorbitant prices lately for his horses. British royalty has before shown a tendency to be rather extravagant in the matter of horseflesh. Richard 111. once offered his kingdom for a horse. In a signed editorial in a New York newspaper the venerable but vagrant B. Peters Hutchinson tells of Chicago’s glory, and declares that the town is still young. Thus does he heap coals of fire on the head of a city which dubbed him “Old Hutch.” A man in Paris has bequeathed 100,000 francs to the French Academy of Sciences, to be given to any one who discovers a means of communicating with another world, star or planet. What’s the matter with a servant girl and oil-can kindling a fire in the kitchen stove?

It’s a strange thing to think of a man who can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty miles, trembling and turning cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest of the world. It’s a mystery we can give no account of; but no more can we of the sprouting of the seed, for that matter. The New York papers in advising the directors of the World’s Fair to abstain from dime-museum methods are not in error. Neither will the directors be in error if when in need of advice they turn to New York. For anything more substanial, however, they will have to face the other way. Two Milwaukee girls climbed to the top of the Pabst brewery chimney—a height of 225 feet —and were wildly cheered by thousands of spectators. They were pretty high up in the air, and had good nerve, surely; but their performance will not make them famous nor raise them higher in the estimation of those who read of their tom-boy exploit. A New Yobk dentist has died from the effects of a woman’s bite, while a San Francisco man has been cured of a threatening wound by having several square inches of cuticle stripped from h female nurse grafted upon his lacerated body. The two incidents taken (together seem to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that woman’s bite is vone than her bark. Bishop Coke, of Buffalo, protests against ladies riding bicycles, because