Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 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 nine teen children. During ten waltzes of ordinar” length a dancer travels about seven mi es and a half. Mrs. Ju, wife of«the Chinese Minister at Washington, paints her cheeks a bright magenta. Denmark has insurance companion for old maids. They pay the latter weekly “benefits.” One of the exhibits at the Midwinter Fair is the flag that Stevens ran up and Blount hauled down at Honolulu. Dr. 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 shipl” ma.de his name immortal. Joseph Rinardo, charged with murderous assault, refused to plead guilty in a Connecticut court and take a sentence of two years in the penitentiary, which opposing counsel had agreed upon. The accused went to trial and gotten years.