Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — He Locked Up His Verses. [ARTICLE]

He Locked Up His Verses.

I It is a singular fact that when the late Lord Tennyson wrote a poem he invariably had it put in type and looked it up for a number of years. If at the end of the allotted time he still liked the verses he corrected them and had them ttMkfetA if not he destroyed them. 4

THE LARGEST BABY EVER BORN. The baby which for general size, height and weight, takes the oake as being “the largest on record” was born in Ohio on the 12tn day of January, 1879. The “average baby” weighs from six to nine pounds. This giant infant’s weight wa» exactly 23J pounds. He (it was a boy) was 2J feet in I eight (the common run of babies range from 16 to 20 inches in height) and had a head measuring 19inches. Its oute littlo pink foot measured inohes and was as thick as that of the average eighteen-months-old child About six years prior to this extraordinary e ent the same woman gave birth to an eighteen pound baby which was 24 inches in hen ht. Although this may be thought to be a wonderful story by those not informed as to the real facts, it will be shorn of some of its seemingly Mulhattonic marks when it is known that the parents themselves were two of the largest people in the United States at the time of the occurrence related above—they were Mis. and Mr. M. Y. Bates, the former known as the “Nova Scotian Giantess," and the latter as the “Kentucky Wonder.” Mrs. Bates was (if memory is not at fault, she died five or six years ago) 7 feet 9 inches in height, the father of the baby giant being about two inohes less in stature.—St. Louis Republio.

ILLITERATE SCHOOL TEACHERS. Here is an item that will interest school teachers generally: The eighty-five teaobers in the sohools of Lockport, N. Y., had a spelling contest the other day, to the great delight of their pupils, because some of the teaohers did not altogether cover themselves with glory. Of the eighty-five only five spelled ( “Ranßselaer” correotly, and 74 per cent of the whole number misspelled “acknowledgement.” All of the following words were wrongly spoiled by more than hulf the teachers, and several of them by more than fifty: “Supersede," ’’resuscitative,” “excellence," “benefited,” “business,” “medal,” “maintenance," “milliner,” “pretentious,” “gaseous" and “concede."