Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — Here’s a Record-Breaker. [ARTICLE]

Here’s a Record-Breaker.

A Neosho County (Kan.) farmer eent this mixed order to a Chanute merchant: •“Send me a sack of flour, five pounds of cofe and one pound of tee. My wife gave birth to a big baby boy last night, also five pounds of corn starch, a screwdriver and a flytrap. It weighed ten pounds and a straw hat. ” The flora of Europe embraces about ten thousand species. India has about fifteen thousand, the British possessions in North America have about five thou.sana, the Cape of Good Hope and Natal about ten thousand, and Australia about ten thousand. The leaves of the common sundew arc provided with hair like glands which secrete a sticky substance, upon which minute insects are caught, the glands, set in motion by the struggling captives, bend over and enfold them, and they are digested as food. Musk, derived from two little sacs on the belly of the musk deer, D regarded as a most important remedy for nervous troubles. It would be more used were It not so costly.