Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Bits of Things. [ARTICLE]

Bits of Things.

Smooth taper fingers are generally in the highest degree artistic. Football was a crime in England during the reign of Henry VIII. In the space of one minute the polypus can change its form 109 times. Glass blowing is represented on an Egyptian monument dating 2009 B. C. The frock coat first made its appearance in England in 1540, in the reign of Henry VIII. Henry Pettitt, the English playwright who died recently, left an estatevalued at about $259,000. Antoine Green, of Wyalusing, Pa,, is a man in excellent physical condition and can work as hard as any of his neighbors, but in his forty years of life, his pulse has never beaten faster than 24 a minute. Lawyer Shelly, of counsel for the defendant in the Pollard-Breckinridge suit, is one of the most irascible men in the l legal profession. His temper is of the explosive variety, and goes off by percussion. “The portable whisker” is the invention of a Pittsburg printer. He claims to be able to adjust a beard, mustache or real Galway sluggers to any stereotype cut of a smooth-faced, man with very little and inexpensive alteration..