Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Flames starting from an unknown cause destroyed property in South Bend, Ind., valued at >.'25,U00. Railw \Y; mail clerks are wrought up oven.theaiew'’o i rdermequiring them to live t n-the line or their run. Resolutions were passed by 70,000 persons in London demanding the abolishment-Of trie House of Lords. Citizens of Elkhart, Ind., are alarmed loVer a fissure in the earth which threatons to destroy many buildings. Government officials are endeavoring; to have murderer Adams, under sentence of death in Mexico, .mprisoned -or li.e instead. Ep-Speaker Reed Opened the Maine campaign with a speech at Old Orchard, in which he attacked the Democracy of the South. Chris Zimmerman, an' Indianapolis confidence man. while lesLting arrest at the old soldiers’ i icnic at Burlington, J nd., was shot by an officer. The revolution in Nicaragua is gaining strength. At Managua the government forces we e driven back and a number Of houses on the outskirts burned.

A Variety of Bats. Wonderful is the variety of head gear worn in the streets and parksol Paris. In most instances the station of a person is defined by the manner ,in which his head is covered. Maids and nurses are in white caps, often decoiated with gay rjbbons; peasant women, fresh from the country, appear in bonnets whose queer shapes differ according to the province whence t» e wearer has come; and market women wear colored handkerchiefs twisted around the head in a style they term marmotte. Workmen, tradesmen and those in the service of special companies wear on their heads the imignia of their occupations. Civil employej, police, postmen and firemen are uniformed; the drivers of omnibuses, tramways and carriages have their distinctive hats, and to a stranger it appears as if all business weie under military rule Pastry cooks’ apprentices appear in caps of immaculate white linen. The drivers of private carriages have hats decorated with various bands of gold and silver, as well as cockades of different colors. Wellbred Paris poodles are shaved once a month. Men who make their living by shaving them bear ihe announcement of their trade around their hats. They are high, black, varnished ones, prot ably originally belonging to coachmen, on which are painted half-clipped poodles and half opened shears.