Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1891 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

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The penitentiaries of Texas have contributed $71,000 to the State treasury thepast year. A miser at Lima, 0., left no heirs tohis fortune, which is estimated to be at . least $50,000. In Jefferson county, Kansas, a brother and sister ran against each other lor • school commissioner. The falls of Niagara carry down 10,000,000 cubic feet of water per minute, - equal to about three million horsepower. The population of Quebec is about . 1,500,000, of whom 1,200,000 ad, least are French in blood, language,.sentiment', and instinct. A census-taker recently stumbled over the name of a man living-near New ■ York which turned out to be Schmeckenheckerstein. A french scientist has just discovered tha!t a 20-pound cheese when 2 years old contains 1,574,856,231 living germs of adult microbes. Several Japanese editors have been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. with hard labor for speaking disrespectfully of the Emperor Jimmu, who, if he y ever existed, lived about 600 years ago. 1 Many natives in India still believe that the land is governed by one Jan Kumpani Bahadur, or “Big Chief Johnny Company,” who is supposed to be the husband of her Majesty the Queea-Em-. press.