Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — OUT OF THE ORDINARY. [ARTICLE]

OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Tobacco grows wild in some parts of Texas. A swallow will eat 6,000 flies in a day a id then hunt for more. Mas. Lucinda Perry, of Tipton, Mo., has married a widower with nineteen children. During ten waltzes of ordinary length a dancer travels about seven miles and a half. Mrs. Ju, wife of the Chinese Minister at Washington, paints her cheeks a bright magenta. Denmark has insurance companies for old maids. They pay the latter weekly benefits.” Ons of the exhibits at the Midwinter Fair is the flag that Stevens ran up and Blount hauled down at Honolulu. Edward s. Lawrence, of Philadelphia, committed suicide by jumping from a steamboat at Atlantic City. Curiously enough, he was a nephew of Capt. John Lawrence, whose “Don’t give up the ship!” made his name Immortal. JOSEPH Rinardo, charged with murdero» assault, refused to plead guilty in a Connecticut court and take a sentenoe O« **o years in the penitentiary, which opposing counsel had agreed upon. The accused went to trial and gotten years.