Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — 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 Spencer, lowa, has a current of cold water rushing from it with great foroe. It will raise a man sitting qn a board placed over the mouth of ihe pipe. A woman in Oxford County, Me., took her husband’s overcoat containing a s3do roll of bills, and used it to cover up her plants. Missing his garment he instituted a searoh and found it in the garden. A female temperance lecturer visited 7aldosta, Ga., the other day, She pub.ishod 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 ihe same size are given with printed directions how to care for them. At the end of a year exhibitions are 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 contrlvanoe for stealing a ride, volunteered the information that, seated on 'the contrlvanoe, he had journeyed over 1,500 miles. It was constructed something on the order of a swing.