Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — Reducing the Surplus. [ARTICLE]

Reducing the Surplus.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is entirely right in saying that when women get the ballot they will reduce the surplus. Many a man can testify that some of them are not waiting for the ballot.— Philadelphia Press.

An Austrian has patented a process for getting a thread that can be spun and bleached from wood, which is cut in long lengths and boiled till it will cleave apart in fibrous bunches by shaking in water. It is then shredded by hand or by machinery, and spun like hemp. This gives a very fine thread, and less boiling gives a coarser one.

Thebe were 26,945 students in the twenty German universities during the last session. Of these 1,643 were foreigners.