Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — BRIEF AND PITHY. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF AND PITHY.

The manager of the Theatre JUbre •ays that he will have no more Ibsen* He has discovered another dramatie genius In Spain. Ohio has 897,909 school children. OI these 798,093 are in the public schools, 39,264 In private schools and 60,652 Is parochial school*. Brahms has been very industrious this summer. He has written several new songs, a clarionet trio and anothei set of gypsy snogs for a quartet of vo salists, with a piano accompaniment. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Osborne, of Knoxville, Term., are soon to celebrate the seventy-seoond anniversary of their marriage. They are respectively 191 and 32 years of age, and nave 290 descendants. A gang of strikers in Queensland insisted on a hotelkeeper discharging his Chinese cook, who was excellent. WheD he was turned out the local police en gaged him. The leading striker wa* soon arrested for sedition, and the first thing he was set to work at in the prison was chopping woo fur the Chinese cook. The oddest cat in Connecticut belong* to A. C. Wood, a barber of Hartford. Conn. It is a pretty little brown and white fellow, (hree months old and very playful, although It has no forelegs and uo tail. It was born without those things. The queer kitten gets over the ground by jumping like a kangaroo, and it travels rapidly.