Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Great heat often causes melancnolia. [ARTICLE]

Great heat often causes melancnolia.

“Mr. SDenser” is the South Carolina slang for the official liquor dispenser. There is never an od 1 number of rows on an ear of corn. Five men can easily hold down a lion but nine are required to hold a tiger. The English census shows that 26,226 Americans reside in England and Wales. There were no “j” and “w” in the original English alphabet.

Aiesidentof Chicopee, Mass., glories m the name of Guaddeusenebetonconrt. Two-thirds of the gold now in use in the world was discovered during the last fifty years. Walter Besant thinks that Chicago will some time 1 e to Amerioa what Babylon was to Asia. A new Gatling gun oanfire 3.129 shots a minute, and, work-d by a small electric motor, 5,000 shots. A railroad station at Point Pine, Me., has been broken into and robbed every summer for the past ten years.

A whale’s throat is so small that you oould choke him with your fist, anil he feeds on the smallest things in the sea, Tfce Pennsylvania railroad uses four locomotives to pull each of its 1 envy World s Fair trains over the mountains at Alto .rna. In northern New York the popular name for a span of black horses is a “team crows.” A five-cent cigar is oalled a “nickel torch.” A bosom shirt, which is open in front, and made to button like a coat, Is arecent invention. It was exhibited in a Broad way (N, Y.) windowjthe other day and attracted muoh attention. Orthodox Turks shave the head with the ; exception of a tuft on the crown, which is i left to insure a tight grip to tne angel of the resurrection when he comes to pull them out of the grave on the day of judgment.

G. C. Keen dy, of Lancaster, Pa , has a curiosity in the shape of a signboard I painted by Benjamin West, America’s first I great painter, in 1771. It is still in a good : state of preservation, after swinging in | front of a tavern all these year?. •' The New York Sun has been investigate ! ing McAllister's four hundred, and print's a number of receipted bills of tbb last 1 centurv sowing that a Stuyyesant sold handkerchiefs, qDePeyster jeans, a Rhinlander hats, a Bra an# newter spoons, a B ekman molasses, and-a Roosevelt lampblack. | Please remember that Clarke does i watch, olook and jewelry repairing.