Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — Pithy Paragraphs [ARTICLE]

Pithy Paragraphs

A Dakota farmer this season raised by irrigation 400 bushels of potatoes per acre, of the best quality. The letter carriers and postoffioe clerks of New York and vicinity have started an eight-hour movement. Russian calculations of the population of China place it at 382,000,000, and the annual increase at 4,000,000. * A wei.i.-to-ix) farmer of Brooks County, Georgia, 52 years of age, took his first ride on a railroad last week. OvKtt 3,0C0 bolts, eight inches long, were used in the construction of the St. Clair tunnel every twenty-four hours. Accouding to the recent census of Switzerland the republic contains 1,700,000 Protestants, 1,200,000 Catholics, 8,300 Jews and 10,000 nOn-roligious persons. Face massage, at 35 a treatment, is popular at Newport. .The Indianapolis .Sentinel thinks that is a much cheaper rate than John L. Sullivan lisod to command. Moscow, Idaho, believes it lias discoved genuine lire opa|s in tlie pocket of an old porous lava formation. Hitherto, on this continent, they have been found only in Mexico. Poisti.and has taken the Oregon export salmon trade away trom Astoria, witli the result that Americans, instead of Canadians, get tl.ecarrying trade. A hare and curious animal—a lizard known to science as Phrynosotne plan- ■ icops—has been received in Paris from South Ainoriba. It is completely’covered with wart-like points, and when frightened it flattens itself out oa tho ground, bristling with points.