Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — CAUGHT ON THE FLY. [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Ih Denmark the lighthouses are sup* yUed with oil to sttll the waves In • Storm. The Czar of Russia is reported ts have presented the Stanford University, In California, with • complete collection sf Russian and Siberian minerals. A WEiiij down J 65 feet deep at Spenoer, lowa, has a ourrent of cold water rushing from It with great foroe. It Will raise a man sitting on a board placed over the mouth of the pipe. A woman In Oxford County, Me., took her husband’s overcoat containing a S3OO roll of bills, and used it to cover flp her plants. Missing his garment ha Instituted a searoh and found It In the garden. A female temperance lecturer visited faldosta, Ga., the other day, She published a pamphlet setting forth the hor* tfble effects of intemperance, and exemplified them in person by getting on n rousing drunk. In Darmstadt and other large German cities pot plants are given to school children who live in tenements. Usuallv three of ihe same size are given with printed directions how to care for them. At the end of a year exhibitions are held and prizes awarded. A tramp detected at Port Jervis, N. Y., In the aot of attaohlng to the truoka of a railroad car a novel contrivance for stealing a ride, volunteered the Information that, seated on the contrivance, fee had Journeyed over UOO miles. It was constructed something on the ordei •f a swing.