Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1897 — Current Condensatious. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensatious.

All animals whose habitat is the Are tic regions turn white in winter. The greatest song writer was Schubert. He produced over 1,200 songs. A San Francisco copy reader “headed up” the account of the death of th* chief of the fire department, “Gone to His Last Fire.” Several articles written by Thackeray from Paris have been discovered in an old periodical called Britannia, which existed in England between 1840 and 1842. They are signed “M, A, Tftmarsh,” and one of them is an account of Napoleon’s funeral. It ir supposed that the novelist was the Par is correspondent of the journal. There is a cat that goes hunting al Hoisington, Kan. It makes its home in the round-house whtere a railroad man placed it to get warm one day when he found it half frozen in the street. The men made a practice of shooting birds for it, and now the cat will follow for a mile or more any man who carries a gun, and at sound of a shot will run for the bird.

A famous pear tree, which had lived nearly six centuries, near Toulon, was destroyed recently by a violent windstorm. The trunk was nearly twelve feet in circumference. M. Chabau, the proprietor of the ground on which the tree stood, after corresponding with nearly all the botanical societies in Europe, could learn of no pear tree equal in size and age to this one. The Archbishop of Canaerbury receives a salary of $75,000 a year. Next to the Queen he occupies the position of the head of the church. The Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London receive $50,000 each; the Bishop' of Durham receives $35,000 and the Bishop of Winchester nearly as much and other salaries of the Episcopal body range from SIO,OOO to $25,000. Calvin C. Boyd, of Harlansburg, Pa., has invented a revolving flower stand, with tubular standard, which can be attached at one end with hose pipe when desired, the other end supporting a spray nozzle. This standard passes through the central opening of one or more collars, each provided with radial arms, at the end of which are openings for flower pots, a very simple and convenient arrangement. Water buckets saved Mrs. J. M. Davis of Buckingham, Va., from drowning while she was on her way to a spring. The path led over a tunnel of an abandoned gold mine, and some rotten timbers giving away just as Mrs. Davis got above them the tunnel roof collapsed and she fell into thirty feet of water. An empty bucket on each arm buoyed her up until she was able to grasp a floating log. Angry at a neighbor for killing his dog, a Frederick, Md., farmer asked a lawyer to collect $lO damages for him. Results were slow and he secretly gave the case to another lawyer, who wrote the offender to call and pay up. The guilty man, frightened at the thought of two lawyers after him, went to the first one and paid the $lO, remarking Incidentally that he had rereived a letter from the other. The lawyers met and divided the $lO, aud their client had to laugh at himself.