Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1890 — Short but Good. [ARTICLE]

Short but Good.

In a hospital at Washington! is a patient who is suffering from the effects of eating raw pumpkin. The Statistical Institute of Rome announces that 63 per cent, of ail Italians are unable to read and write. Ax Atchison candidate worked so> hard that he lost twenty pounds during the canvass, and then got beaten. The most abiding results of sunstroke are all referable to impaired functional energy of the cercbro-spinal system. Before the invention of the telescope an object upon the moon’s surface fifty miles in diameter could not be teen. An orchardist at St. Helena, Cal., has obtained a profit of more titan $1,600 from one acre of apple trees this summer. A pair ©f bantam chickens were sold at the London Crystal Bajace for SSOO, which was almost twice their weight in. gold. Society is dull in Leavenworth because of a. lack of young men, and dull in Topeka because of a scarcity of young ladies. A bird is. one of the most wonderfully organized of all animals, and almost the whole of Its organization is arranged to. facilitate flight. Asafocdita is a vegetable,. not an animal, product. It is prepared from theToots of a extensively grown in Persia,, Bdoocmstan, and Afghanistan. The telescope enables us to. measure the invisible by first making it visible; the spectroscope enables us to, measurethe invisible without making it visible. The use of India rubber- erasing pencil marks was first suggested in or just prior to 1753 by an academician named Magellan, a descendant of the, great navigator. There are mote than 20©vOOO persons ill Italy who inhabit dark collars, and 4,965 communities which are so. poor that meat is never seen on the- table, and bread only on Sundays. Swifts and swallows fly ©very year from England to Southern Africa and to the Moluccas, and the restless, wander ing flight of various oceanic birds is still more surprising. The Aryan race has proved itself immensely superior to the Semitic in its capacity for political organization and for passing on to systems of self-govern-ment and federation. i “Better late than never” was used over three hundred years ago by Thomas Tucker in his “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.” Later on Bunyan used it in his “Pilgrim’s Progress.” t The pneumatic line between New ! York and Philadelphia is now considered lan assured fact. It is expected that it i will transport large packages between ! the two cities in less than twenty minutes. “Tell your master that he has made , a mistake of twenty marks in the account he sent me.” “Impossible!” “’Why impossible ? It is human to make mistakes.” “Yes, I know that, but my master is not human.” I > . 1 Mrs. XVickwire—lf yon go first you •will wait for me on the other shore, won’t you. dear ? Mr. Wickwire—l suppose so. I never went .anywhere vet without having to wait for you at ldhat half an hour. - >