Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

Books and papers were formerly sold •nly at stalls, hence the dealers were called stationer*. Goal mining is pejrlmg one party of miners In the Yukon better than gold mining paid them. London’s common council has applications from 1.8U2 cricket clubs for the use of the 227 grounds at Its disposal. Cayenne convicts’ are escaping ia bands of 10, 15 and 20. Though many are recaptured or perish, some get back to France. Polk County, Missouri, business people are booming their own favored locality by having printed on their envelopes they send through the malls the legend: “The land of the redcheeked children.” One curious effect of bicycling in Bngland Is tbe elimination of chaperons out of doors. Young women, who would not have dreamed of riding horseback unattended by a groom, now go wherever they please alone on their bicycles. A remarkable quartet «f persons were the only guests at the Stewart House, Island Pond, Vt, on a resent Sunday. One of the guests was a doctor, one a clergyman, one a dealer In undertakers’ supplies, and the fourth a dealer In gravestones. A time-honored prerogative, of which no one exactly knows the origin, is enjoyed by the natives of the Spanish village of Espinosa, who, for centuries, have possessed the eurious monopoly of watching ever the clumbers of the ruler of Spain. A medical play by a doctor called “Hypnotic Suggestion; or, a Woman’s Vengeance,” was recently performed at an Odessa theater, the actors and the orchestra being all doctors, and the audience convalescent patient! let out of the hospitals for the occasion. The children at Bethlehem are told by their mothers that on Christmas e\e a choir of angels always sings above the place where Christ was born. Travelers say that on this evening scores and sometimes hundreds of children may be seen In the open air, looking up Into the sky, waiting to hear the angels sing.