Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

Items of Interest.

Railroad statistics show that no onecar on a train is safer than another. The Indian cotton crop of 1889-90 is. the largest ever known in that country. A colored girl is said by the New York artists to be their finest shaped! model. A torpedo net constructed of interlocking steel rings is soon to be put to a practical test. Ottawa, Kan., boasts of a rooster so large that it must be helped upon its roost every night. The largest bearskin in the world is in. Kansas City. It was taken from an animal weighing 2,800 pounds. Wabash, Ind., has a midget, Mrs. Frank Store’s girl babe, six inches la., height and weighing a pound and a half. Compressed paper is now used as a. substitute for wood* in the manufacture of shuttles and their wheels for looms. A snuff-box containing three good, rings was unearthed in the excavation for an annex to the Niles works at. Hamilton, Ohio. There is a tremendous activity in thetoy division of the Patent Office, especially in automatic toys that talk and walk. The largest cotton mill in the South is now being erected in Florence, Ala., by New England capitalists. It willi have 53,500 spindles. A Pullman palace car recently passed from St. Louis to New York, which was chartered especially for the transportation of two valuable dogs. An organization modeled after theAmerican Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, has been organized in Great Britain, under the name of the National Home Reading Union. The largest cotton planter in the world? is James S. Richardson, of New Orleans,, who owns 49,000 acres of cotton land anJ employs 9,000 negroes. He has re--1 fused an English syndicate’s offer of I §22,500,000 for his plantations. A brown or black bear would soon be- ! observed where the coyote makes itshome, but the latter, lying in the sides of hills covered with dried and sunburnt vegetation, is almost perfectly safe from* intrusion if ii but remains quiet. A newspaper at Newcastle, England, commemorated its centenary by republishing its first issue. During the day a. country couple called at the office to answer an advertisement for help on a farm. They were informed they were 100 years late; The receivable traditions of China goback to 3,000 years before Christ, and one of their sacred books, the Shu-kfng’ (treating of history and of the government and laws of the ancient monarchs), begins with the Emperor Yao, 2,3571 years B. C.