Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — Small Bits of News. [ARTICLE]

Small Bits of News.

The Hindoos consider flesh blood as defiling a man, a vegetarian diet being the first essential of their religious life. The knot, or nautical mile, is 6,086.7 feet, while the statute mile, which is employed in measuring distances on land, is 5,280 feet. Buffalo has a firm named Irish & English. What is equally curious, Mr. English is an Irishman and Mr. Irish is an Englishman. The highest price ever paid for a book, it is said, was £50,000. It was for a vellum missal which was presented to King Henry VII. by Pope Leo X. Three German steamers, costing in all about $125,000, are to be placed on the African lakes. Germany is determined to push her trade on the Dark Continent. The slave population of the country was 2,009,043 in 1830, 2,487,355 in 1840, 3,204,313 in 1850, and 3,953,760 in 1860. Missouri had 25,091 slaves in 1830, 58,240 in 1840, 87,422 in 1850, and 114,931 in 1860. An English tourist in this country created-surprise, as well as amusement, when he asked, upon paying his fare: “Are any refreshments included in these tickets?” Simplicity in living strengthens not only the body, giving it great muscular power and endurance, but purifies the mind, enabling vital forces to be accumulated. The. total length of the streets, avenues, boulevards, bridges, quays and thoroughfares of Paris is set down at 600 miles, of which nearly 300 are planted with trees.