Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — SHORT STORIES. [ARTICLE]

SHORT STORIES.

Four men out of six smoke. R. P. Roblin, premier of Manitoba, has announced that the government will soon begin the construction of a thousand, miles of telephone and telegraph lines. The house at Litchfield, Conn., in which Judge Tappan Reeve started the first law school In this country in 1774 has been sold at auction to parties who will see that It is preserved for its historical value. The prized possession of Postmaster E. W. Jones of Riverpont, R. 1., is Ted, a cat that tips the scales at nineteen and a half pounds and is able to reach a height of more than three feet when standing on. his hind feet. Joseph Doctorovltg, a teacher of Hebrew and a student of old Jewish institutions, has put on exhibition in New York a complete reproduction of the temple at Jerusalem. It is fifteen feet square and includes the several courts and palaces of the priests.