Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — Current Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Current Happenings.

The residence of a Jeffersonville, Ind., man has been burglarized seven times within fifteen months. They have just opened the doors of Johns Hopkins College to females. Singularly, the first girl to get in- was a Ladd. A Western schoolmaster is being prosecuted by an irate father whose son was compelled to eat soap as a punishment. A kind-hearted man in North Berwick, Me., name not given, is about to found an asylum for aged and and infirm horses. The whole world now operates 900,000 miles of telegraph lines, and the charges for messages amount to nearly $450,000,000 annually. A pig with one head, but two perfectly formed bodied and eight legs, was born alive in Wilkinson County, Georgia, a few weeks ago. Numerous grandchildren of both the contracting parties attended the wedding of a groom of 75 and abride of 71 at Crawfordsville, Ind., a few days ago. A Florida fish story tells of a shad some twenty inches long which leaped from one stream to another, over a considerable space of ground, in search of food. It is announced that the Virginia Exposition Board intends to reproduce at the Fair, Mount Vernon, the famous home and last resting place of George Washington.