Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1881 — BITS OF INFORMATION. [ARTICLE]

BITS OF INFORMATION.

Siberia has a population of 1,885,000. Thebe are 189,000 doctors in the world. There are 4,400 Jew pawn-brokers in Great Britain. Thebe are 65,000 physicians in the United States, and only 5,000 in Spain. Alpha Centaubi is the nearest of the fixed stara, and its distance from the earth exceeds the sun’s 230,000 times. It is a pitiful thing to a hear a young lady say something testes like mustache cosmetic, and then change color and wry to look unconcerned and indifferent. The popular vote for President in 1860 was as follows: Lincoln • HwS’ nw D0ug1a51,378,157 Breckinridge 847,514 Bell. 687,830 The galaxy or milky way owes its peculiar appearance to the blended light of myriads of small stars too minute to be individually recognized by the naked eye, but which are seen in their true character by a telescope of moderate powers. Only two national parks have ever been made in this country by authority of the General Government, namely, the Yosemite valley and the Yellowstone National Park. Yosemite is pronounced Yo-sem-i-te, with the accent on the “sem.” The following table shows the population of some of the larger cities of the world: L0nd0n.'.4,000,000 8er1in1,111,630 Parisl,oßß,Bo6 Klng-te-ching... .1,000,003 Soo-ch001,500,000 Philadelphia 846,984 Cantonl,3oo,ooo Chang-ohow 800,000 paringl,3oo,ooo Wo-chang.. 800,000 New Y0rk1,206,590 Jones is proud of his wife, and with reason, for Mrs. Jones is pretty as well as smart. She was lecturing on temperance reform, and got naturally worked up as she rehearsed the many things that should be done, but which nobody seemed ready to do. “ Oh, dear I” she exclaimed, “ I wish I were a man I” “I object!” exclaimed Jones, rising from his seat It brought down the house. The phrase “Speaking for buncombe” originated near the close of the debate on the famous “ Missouri question,” in the Sixteenth Congress. It was then used by Felix Walter, who lived at Waynesville, N. 0., near the Countv of Buncombe, which formed part of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the House was impatiently calling for the “ question. ” Several members asked him to desist, but he declared that the people of his district expected it, and he was bound to “ make a speech for Buncombe.”

St. Nicholas is said to have been Bishop of Myra, in Lycia, and to have died in 326 A. D. Of this personal history little or nothing iS known with certainty. The young were universally taught to revere him. He is said to have supplied three destitute maidens with marriage portions, by secretly leaving money at their window, and, as this day occurred just before Christmas, he was made the purveyor of the gifts of the season to all children in Flanders and Holland, who put out their shoe or stocking in the confidence that Santa Claus, or Knecht Klobes, as they called him, would put in a prize for good conduct before morning. The following is the list of moral virtues, being rules drawn up by Benjamin Franklin, to which he paid constant and earnest attention: Temperance— Eat not to fullness; drink not to elevation. Silence —Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order—Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution—Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality—Make no expense, but do good to others as yourself ; that is, waste nothing. Industry—Lose no time; be always employed in something useful, but avoid all unnecessary actions. Sincerity—Use no hurtful deceit ; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. Justice —Wrong no one by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Moderation—Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries. Cleanliness—Suffer no uncleanliness in body, clothes or habitation. Tranquillity—De not disturbed about trifles, or at accidents, common or unavoidable. Humility—lmitate Jesus Christ. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir— I have advised many ladies to try your “ Favorite Prescription, and never see it fail to do more than you advertise. Yours truly, Mbs. A. M. Rankin, 141 Bates street, Indianapolis, Ind. “’Tisno use! We are now in the worst crisis of our history!” said an enthusiastic young reformer, at the family supper-table. “Subsidy and Perfidy openly walk hand in hand!” ■ “Mebbe they be a-going to get married, Tommy,” put in the venerable grandmother, “and that makes things not as bad as they look to vou. I remember when I was a girl, and your grandfather came a courting—” “O! bother a grandmother, I say!” exclaimed Mi’. Reform Thomas, impatiently, upsetting his empty tea-cup with such a jangle as to send the dear old lady off on a dissertation about the best cements for mending broken “chaney. ” Young, middle-aged or old men, Buffering from nervous debility and kindred weaknesses, should send two stamps for large treatise, giving successful treatment World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. A French writer declarees that a lady can always be distinguished by the way she eats grapes. A lady sucks the soul from the envelope, with a far-away gaze, and removes the covering gently with her fingers as it appears between her pearly teeth, while the plebeian goes at at the luscious fruit like she was hungry, and blows the skins promiscuously about the room or else swallows them. If you are bilious, take Dr. Pierce’s “ Pleasant Purgative Pellets,” the original •* Little Liver Pills.” Of all druggists.

No man can read a Chicago newspaper account of how some one with S4OO made $60,000 in three months, on pork or wheat, without wanting to self his shirt for fifteen cents and buy futures in turnips. How to Get Sick. Expose yourself day and night, eat too much without exercise ; work too hard without rest; doctor all tire time ; take all the vilo mo strums advertised ; and then you will want to know , flow to Get Well. Which is answered in three words—Take Hop Bitters ! See other column.—. Express.