Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — ALL SORTS, [ARTICLE]

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A negro at Perry, Ga„ is said to weigh wo pounds. Opium kills about 160,000 persons annually in China. Rocking-ciiaibs are higher and more spindle- than ever. An acre of sunflowers has just been gathered near New York. A THiB’rEKN- year-old girl is the orgaiiTst in a Maine church. A child born to an Albany, Ga., eouple had ut birth two teeth. A nine-year-old Buchanan, Ga., boy sets over a column of type a day. Russell Sage keeps an old one-dollar bill—the first dollar he ever earned. A hat that once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte was sold recently for S4OO. A Cobbville, Ga., man tells of a pig which has been adopted by an old cat. Strauss is perfecting a waltz that'will admit of conversation while dancing it Andrew Carnegie’s mascot is a brass telegraph key. He keeps it In a glass case. A lawsuit begun 200 years ago has Just been decided by the imperial courts In Leipsic. Mb. Skelton, of Hart County, Georgia, owns a hog 14 months old and weigb ing 525 pounds. Many of Georgia’s new legislators cap not spell or write the English language or any other. Gloves were, in 1416, often set with precious stones and sufficiently valuable to be left as legacies. fastest bird on the wing Is the •wlft, which has been known to attain a speed of 200 miles an hour. Of 50,000 guesses of the weight of a Mg cake of soap on exhibit In Detroit only four, strange to say, were correct. A woman at Hagerstown, Md., has a goose which came into her possession when she was married, twenty-one years l«o. Female clerks employed in the German postal telegraph service are from towjUme forward ordered to wear a uni-