Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — CAUGHT ON THE FLY. [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

In Denmark the lighthouses are supplied with oil to still the waves in a storm. The Czar of Russia is reported to have presented the Stanford University, in California, with a complete collection of Russian and Siberian minerals. A well down 165 feet deep at Spen- < or, lowa, has a current of cold water lushing irom it with great force. It will raise a man sitting on a board placed over the mouth of the pipe. A woman in Oxford County, Me., took her husband’s overcoat containing a $b 0 roll of bills, and used it to cover up her plants. Missing his garment he instituted a search and found It in the garden. A female temperance lecturer visited Valdosta, Ga., the other day, She published a pamphlet setting forth the horrible effects of intemperance, and exemplified them in person by getting on a rousing drunk. In Darmstadt and other large German cities pot plants are given to school children who live in tenements. Usually three of the same size are given with printed directions how to care for them. At the end of a year exhibitions arc held and prizes awarded. A tramp detected at Port Jervis, N. Y., in the act of attaching to the trucks of a railroad car a novel contrivance for stealing a ride, volunteered the Information that, seated on the contrivance, he had journeyed over 1,600 miles. It was constructed something on the order of a swing.