Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Man Wanted! For light and profitable business, at once. Must have horse. Address 124 N. Mich. St., South Bend, Ind. Fred. Tyler has accepted a poi sition with a publishing house. — Headquarters, Danville, 111.

This morning, about 7 o’clock, a barn and contents on the old home farm of'Wm. M. Hoover, a few miles south of Rensselaer, was destroyed by fire. Origin unknown. Loss about S4OO. Thursday last uncle Isaac Sayler celebrated his 86th birthday anniversary, at his home in Rens*, selaer. His brothers, Jacob, aged 89; Micah, aged 82, and Henry aged 80, were present. The combined ages of the brothers aggre - gate 337 years.

’Gone Spitler has returned from a trip through Illinois and lowa. N. S. Bates is still at his old stand on Front street paying the highest cash price for poultry and eggs. Dunksrd meeting at the Church, of God, Sunday, April 28, at 2 p. m. A genuine first class top buggy only $41.50 at Rob* Randle’s. Victor P„ son of D. H. Yeoman, oa I 'nion township, and Miss Mary O. J enkins, of Barkley township, were married Wednesday, April 3d. Ed. D. Rhoades is taking the the corporation school enumera* tion, and while at it will take the. census of the population of Rensselaer. The building on Odd Fellows’ ot, Washington street, has been removed to Jerry Healy’s lot, on Vanßensselacr street, opposite the lublic square. Jay W. Williams reached hi® 50th year last Sunday. His sister, in New York, and two brothers, in Dliio, remembered him with a beautifully engraved gold headed cane,. After a protracted visit with relatives in Cai roll c untv, uncle Billy Clark has returned to this place.

ODOS AND ENDS. A fly’b egg will hatch fa twelve hours. Fleas always leave a dead or dvimr person. J 6 A PEt flea has beau known to live six years. There are more than 400,000 insects known to entomologists. The army worm has cost this country more than the revolutionary war. F armerb of the United States lose $100,000,000 annually by the ranges of insects. South American ants have been known to construct a tunnel threw miles long. If a man could jump as far in proportion to his size as a flea, he could leap 70 miles. Female spiders are larger and more ferocious than males, and generally devour their husbands. If human dwelling* were built ou the same proportioai as the ant hills of Africa,jinvate residences would be a mile high. TWO sexton beetles will bury a mole in an hour, a feat equal to two men burying a whaJe in the same length of time. A mosquito injects poison into the wound he makes in order that the blood may become fluid enough to flow readily. This is what causes the pain. The utility of the mosquito is beyond question. It is born in the swamps, and feeds unon animal and vegetable matter which, if allowed to decompose, would fill the air with poisonous gases.

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