Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — Told In a Few Words. [ARTICLE]

Told In a Few Words.

A tomato weighing twenty-seven pounds has been raised at Bayou Sara Li. Do Nor believe everything you hear, for he who believes everything he hears often believes more than he hears. Dkacon Price of Man hester, Mass., is said to be the oldest schoolteacher in the country. He was born in 1808. The man who invariably whistles does very little thinking. But he keeps other people thinking, just the same. The oldest surgeon in the world is said to be M. W. f-almon of Cambridge, England. He was born in March, 1790. Thousands of souls have been lost because somebody was afraid of doing something somebody else would find fault with. The ormolu effects which are shown upon the high-class French furniture of the seventeenth century are now being imitated in wood and plaster gilding. Joseph Tapep, a negro, gave a peculiar reason for trying to hang himself in Pittsburg the other day. He is now 107 years old, and he had given up the hope of ever dying in the natural way. Mr. and Mrs. , Stephen Osborne of Knoxville, Tenn , are soon to celebrate the seventy-second anniversary of their marriage. They are respectively 101 and 92 years ©f age and have 290 descendants. Thoroughly dry salt intended for table use, and mix with it a small proportion of corn starch, if you would overcome the tendency it has, in damp weather, to pack solidly in the saltcellars or shakers Rattlesnakes are said to have a natural antipathy to white ash leaves. Some naturalists assert that a rattlesnake placed in a circle of half ash leaves and half hot coals will cross the coals rather than encounter the leaves