Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — BRIEF AND PITHY. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF AND PITHY.

The manager of the Theatre Libre says that he will nave no more Ibsen. He has discovered another dramatic genius in Spain. Ohio has 897,909 school children. 01 th ese 798,093 are in the public schools. 39,264 In private schools and 60,552 in parochial schools. Brahms has been very industrious this summer. He has written several new songs, a clarionet trio and another set of gypsy songs for a quartet of vocalists, with a piano accompaniment. Mb. and Mbs. Stephen Osbobne, of Knoxville, Tenn., are soon to celebrate the seventy-second anniversary of their marriage. They are respectively 101 and 92 years of age, and have 290 descendants. A. gang of strikers in Queensland insisted on a hotelkeeper discharging hie Chinese cook, who was excellent. When he was turned out the local police engaged him. The leading striker wae soon arrested for sedition, and the first thing he was set to work at in the prison was chopping wood for the Chinese cook. The oddest oat in Connecticut belongs to A. C. Wood, a barber of Hartford, Conn. It is a pretty little brown and white fellow, three months old and very playful, although it has no forelegs and no tail. It was born without those things. The queer kitten gets over the ground by jumping like a kangaroo, and it travels rapidly.