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

INTERESTING.

• Norvin Green, the President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, not many years ago rode through Kentucky as a country doctor, carrying his medicines in his sad-dle-bags behind him. There are Indian girls in the Indian Territory University who are studying German, French, Latin and Greek, geology, moral philosophy, poli.ical economy and other branches of the college course Judge Walsh, of Chicrgn, has dec'dsd that it is not cruelty to tie tin things to a dog's ta lin order to make him fly around, he intonated to the prosecutor in the case that most dogs like it, or least all the dogs possessed of any snirit. A beautiful woman of Troy works In an iron foundry. She has 1 een crossed in love, and says the din of the iron t-hops is the only thing that keeps her from thinking and Insanity. She has made herself as physically miseialile as possible to keep her brain alert. The ttfro coats of paint on the great bridge at New York weigh It'.OOO pounds, but the whole weight of steel in theair isl-MJSO tons, and the load It is expected always to be carrying is 3,100 tons moie, making 17,780t0na But each of the four cables will holdup more than 60,000 tons. We are apt to think transportation on coal !n the United States Is high. We find that -here is a business in coal to London, Enyland, of 10,000,001 annually, and the sailroads compete for the carriage of the coal it appears, on the best authority, that the shear.ost is 86-ltO of a cent per mue net, and the highest is 11-10 cents net per ton per mile. Distance was 110 to 1?J miles from oits to London.