Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Rapid Turn of Fortune’s Wheel. [ARTICLE]

Rapid Turn of Fortune’s Wheel.

Good fortune has come to James Wilson after eleven years of penniless waj> dering on the face of the earth. Wilson Was the son of a wealthy New York banker and broker. In 1878 ho married a nurse in the family, in spite of parental objections. He went to Australia and lived there for several years with his wife. In 1884 his father died, cutting him off without a cent. He tried to break his father’s will, but was unsuccessful, and since 1886 he has led the life of a tramp. He has recently received news in San Francisco the United States Supreme Courf kwaAeclded in his toror a suit thatwill

A Market for Toads in England. Toads are sold in London and in <rany other parts of England at sixpence a dozen. Of all the means of ridding an in. Zested garden of slugs and other pesis there is nothing to touch a judicious regiment of toads. They will keep the worst garden clear of Insect enemies for any length of time; and, in view of this, the toad trade has sprung up. At evening the toed catchers set out; and along the banks of streams and under hedgegrows they find the little browa slug killers, walking solemnly in straight lines, on the prow! for worms and beetles. The wily catcher lifts them one by one, and stows them in his sack; and, if he knows anything of the ways of wild things, he will fil' all his receptacles Ln an hour. Thre*. or four dozen may be taken in an even ing almost anywhere—even <m Ham< stead Heath. Florists and private peo pie with large gardens buy the toa^ l * at sixpence a dozen.