Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1890 — It Was a Baby. [ARTICLE]

It Was a Baby.

“There’s something out here in a babycirt!" yelled a boy < ■ he stoo I in the door of a Michigan avenue grocery the other day. No one answered. “It’s a’ive!" he cont nucd. Several women looked up. “And it’s a squalling!” Two women seeemea uneasy. “And a feller who is out therr watching it says it’s a kid—a little one for • cent!" “Mercy on me, but that must be my baby! I’d forgo'ten all about him!” gasped a woman ns she hurried out to find her suspicions verified.— Detroit, Free Press.

A vast sum was sunk in the temporary plant used tn building tbe Forth bridge. The engineers estimate that £50(1,000 was spent in this diiection alone. In scaffolding, flooring, shedding, etc., 1,000,000 cubic feet of timber was used. From first to last 1,203 tons of mere service bolts was needed to hold the mass of material together. Scores of hydraulic jacks, sixty miles of wire rope and rams innumerable were also among the temporal y appliances employed.