Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — No Time to Lose. [ARTICLE]

No Time to Lose.

If Dr. Koch should discover a remedy for as well as an explanation of pulmonary disorders, he will have no lack of home practice. Nos. 132 and 134 Ackerstrasse, Berlin, is the location of the most crowded tenement on earth. It is only a four-story building, but contains 232 sections, inhabited by nearly 1,100 human beings. Many of the rooms have only transom windows; others face stuffy courtyards or sunless alleys; in short, an establishment with all modern devices for the systematic manufacture of lung diseases.

“A hen has to feet.” “He done it.” This is what Superintendent B. B. Russell, of Brockton, Mass., placed upon the blackboard for the pupils to correct. This was the way one boy corrected it: “He didn’t done it, God done it.” —Boston Journal of Education.