Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

Two members of a British chess club played a tournament to see which should be left free to woo a certain lady. Before the contest was decided she married a third man. The New York Board of Aldermen, in their desire to emulate the example set by the Mayor, have passed a resolution ordering that the Aldermen's flag be flown from the city ball whenever the boa I'd is in sessdon. The best tea in Japan Is raised in districts where snow often falls to the eaves of the houses. Many plants will survive under such snow that are not hardy even in the Southern States. By the same rule some varieties of Japanese lilies will survive Vermont winters that are not hardy in Missouri. A Frenchman recently visited this country, went home, and, as usual, wrote a book about us. Perhaps nothing in the book is more galling to the Bostonians than the Frenchman’s story that one of the leading swells of Boston makes a good thing out of the business of subletting pews in three different churches. The Germans have some educational ideas which might be borrowed with profit, and among these are wall maps of different species of pestiferous weeds which hang in the schoolroom, where the children can see them as long as they go to school. They are colored plates of weeds in all stages of growth, and also the way in which they scatter their seeds and progagate themselves. “A man who will break into a house to rob its inmates would murder them in cold blood if it were necessary,” said an eminent North Carolina lawyer the other day. He expressed the belief of the people of his State, and explained the existence of a law under which three men are soon to be hanged. They broke into buildings occupied by persons, and the presumption of North Carolina law is that they would have committed murder to carry out their purpose of robbery.