Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1877 — PEOPLE AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Key West employs 1,500 cigar-makers. Texas is running in debt SI ,000,000 a year. The Russian empire is over 1,000 years old. No kind of fruit is at any time cheap in England. The wheat-fly is devastating the fields of Georgia. Gen. Grant and party will do Paris in September. The memory should be a storehouse, not a lumber-room. Very few have seuse enough to despise the praise of a fool.. Black swans and wise lovers are groat rarities in the world. The only true way to conquer temptation is to fly from it. Good nature, like the bee, collects honey from every herb. Hydrophobia occurs oftenest among highly-domesticated dogs. There are in this country nineteen libraries containing each 50,000 or more volumes. The latest investigator gives Jerusalem 8,000 Christians, 13,000 Jews and 15,000 Mohammedans. An urn full of old coins, dating 200 years after Christ, was lately dug up in Leicestershire, England. A clerk in the Allegheny Postoflice stamped a letter with his hand stamp. A loud explosion startled him. The letter inclosed paper caps for toy pistols. The component parts of an egg, chemically, are: 55 parts of carbon, 16 nitrogen, 7 hydrogen, and the remaining 22 are oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur. The year 1877 is not to be without its centennial. Vermont has on hand two important celebrations this coming August—one the birth of the State, the other the battle of Bennington.

The old publisher of Godcy's Lady's Book is going out, and a new Philadelphia company will grapple the periodical. The old publisher is L. A. Godey, who has run the business nearly fifty years. A case of lead poisoning in England has been traced to a millstone which had been repaired with lead. Fifteen or twenty families were affected, and the health officer thinks it not uncommon to repair millstones in this way. Joseph Greenbrough died recently at Kirkdalo jail, Scotland, aged 81, and leaving property valued at $1,250,000. He was, at the time of his death, undergoing a sentence of a year’s imprisonment for disorderly and riotous conduct. Thirteen counties in Texas produced, last year, 7,500,000 bushels of wheat valued at $8,000,000. From this a Texas journal estimates that wheat coidd bo grown in 170 counties, and that the annual value of the wheat crop could be raised to $575,000,000. Coal of a good quality has been found about eighteen miles from Denison, Tex. The deposit begins about fifty feet below the surface and increases in thickness as you go deeper. The shaft which lias been sunk is within two miles of the Transcontinental raihvay. Gov. Vance, of Norili Carolina, has written a letter advising the planters of South Carolina to plant corn in the place of cotton, wherever the latter has failed. In view of the prospective high prices in consequence of the European war, he thinks the experiment well worth a trial. pasture-lands. Tlio pasture-lands sweep up, and hide The far-off blue horizon-line; The ’quiet rows crop by my side, Or on (lie grassy slopes recline. A cloud re vealsMts pillared form Above the pasture’s rocky crest, Then fades, and other clouds transform Tho sky, hut bring it no iiarest! —John 2'rowbridge, in Appleton*' for July. Two young foxes were caught in a trap in Carson, Nev., by Riorden, who confined them in a cage where their mother could visit them at night. She gnawed off slats and liberated them, and (for revenge?) took them to Riorden’s coop, aud filled them with his chickens before departing. Russian ladies have appealed to Germany for subscriptions toward furnishing supplies for the sick and wounded of the Russian army, and much money lias been subscribed by the court and nobility. The German people, however, are reluctant. They recall the fact that, during the late war with France, collections of the kind in Russia were made entirely lor the benefit of French soldiers, and that Russian newspapers chronicled German successes with an illconcealed dissatisfaction.