Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Six million letters are annually torn and sold as old paper in Washington. Vassar girls consume forty bushels of onions in a year. That is one of their strong points. The highest inhabited place in the world is Galera, a railway village in Peru, 15,635 feet above the sea. Two English chemists have concluded from experiments that phosplioresence can be produced by ozonized water. A Wellington, Kan., couple, who were married in two weeks after they met, were separated in just two weeks after they were married. A butterfly captured in the Sierras was sold to the Smithsbnian Institution for $1,500. It was an individual of a fossil species, supposed to be extinct. When you meet a man who tells you that “we all have our faults,” you have met one who secretly belives he hasn’t any at all. A Dallas, Texas, juryman was fined S6OO for stepping into a saloon without inviting the deputy sheriff and the other eleven jurymen. A Kansas boy earned a Dice Bible by committing ten hundred verses to memory, and then he traded his Bible for a shot-gun, and. he accidentally shot his aunt in the leg. A man in Florida recently exchanged a weekly paper for a mule. This trade was not so unappropriate as it would seem at first blush. They are both elevators of the human rate. Crickets are an article of commerce in some parts of Africa, and people make a business of rearing them. The natives are very fond of their music, thinking that it induces sleep. The German Empire, by the last census, has forty-nine and a half millions of population, Prussia having of these thirty millions, and the next division, Bavaria, having five and a half millions. Soundings in the Black Sea show that beyond a depth of 603 feet the water is so impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen gas emanating from decaying animal and vegetable matter that living organisms are not found there. The latest novelty in telephone invention, it is claimed, will convey a whispered conversation intelligibly over a distance of three miles. It has a glass diaphragm resting on glass rods and communicating with the ordinary wire. A venturesome deer wandered into Dubuque, lowa, and was lassoed by a a handy policeman. But when he attempted to lpad the animal to the sta-tion-house, it. gave him a lively dance around the town, and finally escaped to the woods. One of the deepest coal mines in the world is the Ashton Moss Colliery, in Lancashire, England. Its lowest level is 3,120 feet below the surface —six feet greater than eleven times the distance from the sidewalk to the top of the spire of Trinity Church, New York. A new device for signaling at sea has been successfully tested. With a machine, something like a magic lantern, letters from six to twelve feet long can be thrown on a sail at night, and made so conspicuous that they may be easily read a mile from the ship displaying them. The late King Kalakaua held a $5,000 membership in an American life insurance fraternity order, and many a lodge member throughout Ohio and other States, therefore, received official notice of the monarch’s demise. The notice gave his occupation as “king” and his residence as Honolulu. The disbanding of the Union army commenced June 1, 1865, and 786,000 officers and men were mustered out of the service by the, middle of the following autumn. It is corsidered one of the greatest wonders of government, this transformation of vast armies of men to peaceable citizens in the short space of 150 days. Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, the newly installed President of the Northwestern University, is only 36 years of age; President Thwing, of Adelbert College, just inaugurated, is but 34 years of age; President Harper is likewise a comparatively young man; and Sena-tor-elect Kyle, of South Dakota, is but 34 years of age. The Compagnie Generale des Voitures of Paris are about to start a paper entitled Paris Voiture, which will be procured by putting a 2-sou piece in a slot in every cab. The paper will contain the bills of the theaters, a few illustrations and tips for the races. The purchaser will also be insured during his drive. Edison once became known to fame, says an exchange, o a cockroach annihilator in this wise: The building in which he worked was infested with them. There was a couple of sinks in the building where they held high carnival. Edison ran a wire about the sinks in such a manner that every cockroach must crawl over it on his way to tha tp lk-mdte, and turned on an elec-