Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — Refrigerator Safes. [ARTICLE]

Refrigerator Safes.

“You know that tremendous fire out in Chicago?” said Stone. “That one that burned forty days, and they drained Lake Michigan to put it out? Well, sir, a little rooster got locked into one of onr safes in that fire, and when they opened what do yon think that rooster did ?” “Jumped out, flapped his wings and crowed,” said I, confidently. “Well, I should smile if he did,” exclaimed Stone. “Why, he was frozen stiff!” —Boston Times.

A cubic inch of gold is worth $210; a cubic foot, $362,380; a cubic yard, $9,797,762. This is valuing it atslß an ounce. At the commencement t>f the Christian 'era there was in the world $427,000,000 in This had diminished to $57,000,000 at the time America was discovered, when it began to increase. Now the amount of gold in use is estimated at $6,000,000,000.

The census gives the cost of 87,000 miles of railroad then in operation in the United States as $5,660,000,000. Under the new civil code of California, the earnings of the wife are not liable for the debts of the husband.