Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — BRIEF AND PITHY. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF AND PITHY.

Tee manager of the Theatre Libre says that he will have no more Ibsen. Be has discovered another dramatic genius in Spain. Ohio has 897,909 school children. Oi th ese 798,093 are in the public sohools, 39,264 in private schools and 60,552 in parochial schools. Bbahms has been very industrious this summer. He has written several new songs, a clarionet trio and anothei set of gypsy songs for a quartet of vo calists, with a piano accompaniment. Mb. and Mrs, Stephen Osbobne, of Knoxville, Tenn., are soon to celebrate the seventy-second anniversary of their marriage. They .are respectively 191 and 02 years of age, and have 290 descendants. A gang of strikers in Queensland insisted on a hotelkeeper discharging his Chinese cook, who was excellent When he was turned out the local police en - gaged him. The leading striker was soon arrested for sedition, and the first thing he was set to work at In the prison was chopping wood for the Chinese oook. 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.