Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

( OfllcUl Otti. Xfcte» hnndrud end odd onto are mate talned by the United States Gow*. ment, the oost of their support being carried as a regular item on the aooounu of the Postofßoe Deparment They are distributed among about fifty postomoea* and iheir duty is to keep rate and alee from eating postal matter and mafi sacks. Their work la es the utmost importance wherever large Quantities of “aU are oolleoted—asjtor example, ,« *»• where from 8.eoo to 8,000 bags of such material are commonly stored away In the basement. Formerly great damage waa often done by mischievous rodents, which ohewed holes In ths sacks, and thought nothing of boring dear through base of letters In a night. Troubles of thtaaort no longer ooour, now that ths ofßoial pussies keep watoh. Each cHy postmaster is allowed from $8 to S4O a year for the keep of his feline staff, sending hie estimate for ‘oat moat" to Washington at the beginning of each quarter. Oats are kept In ail the Government buildings at Washington. I* that of the State, War, and Very Departments they are employed not only to protest the priceless pepers stared there but to f uaM against lire. Twice the War Deportment has been set aftte by rata gnawing matohas—on one of these occasions la the ofioe of tit# Secretary of War in the middle of tho night. The White House has two oats, one a black and white female, kept In the kitohen, and the other a blast tom, kept la tho But the Capitol is the greatest place la Washington for oats. The huge building swarms with them and at night they soamper about in troops. Nobody knows how many of them there are, but tba watchmen reckon them by scores. They are all vagrants and wild as hawks. In the summer they are eeattered about the neighborhood to some extant, but in the winter they gather within the building. At about 10 o*doeh ovary night thay begin a mad rasing through the empty corridors, which are made to resound with their orles.

■is llraln Covered by a XtaeSer. Sam MoKiel, a negro, at Beulm Grove, Ark., is a living curiosity. tome time In August he wee ettttng near a lira. He had a fit and fell on the Are, his mead striking a htap of rad seals. Hia face, neck and head ware burned until not only the hair and flesh fell off. but ithc -hull was burned te ashes agd a piece of tho skull a# large aa a man's hand c trine off. ' He Is sow upend the flesh V.OIUI i» are healing. He has a plggter over the brain and anyone can see the bruin when the plaster Is of. To i • Mo I.ondoa WarUafimaa. Ityetreny. among the unemployed later* Inf peo, (‘ n London la eery (real Si H«L H> n y li. Fowtsr, president es me local ( ovmnment Board, has profited a enmulai n vising the leeel authorities to mcwify it 1 V making reads, oonstruatlng sewi ic and cleaning the paying tlm men employed to de the work reguii.r day’s wages. The autiter* ltiea, he should aim to ha useful to labor and avoid making paupers « these out of work.

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