Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The inventor of a process for the manufacture of artificial fur is announced. Although some printers may not ■work steadily, whenever they go to work they go to stick. A game of marbles was played by several prominent citizens of Washington the other morning on Pennsylvania avenue. A young lady says she has been so carefully taught to reverence the aged that she doesn’t even dare to laugh at an old joke. In several Eastern cities barber shops keep open all night and where there iSfto Sunday law they keep open the year found. Mention is made of a child born at Hartford, Conn., which weighed only two pounds and three ounces when it was three days old. It is often charged that the Indians are lazy, and it may be so, but they manage to keep the United States troops pretty busy. The brownish discoloration of ceiling where gas is used is caused by dust carried against by the heated air currents produced by the gas.

Girls in Japan join art, cookery and gymnastic classes. The aim of teaching is not to make girls independent, but more intelligent, and, therefore, more useful as daughters, sisters and wives. Stale pies in railroad restaurants have long been disseminators of dyspepsia. Recognizing this fact, a member of the Missouri Legislature has introduced a measure compelling bakers to date their pies. The girls who attend the college at Columbia, Mo., think a fine should be imposed when they accept the escort of gentlemen to whom they are not engaged, and have agreed to pay a fine of 25 cents every time they do so. Temptation for desperadoes exists in the secret hoards of wealth in India. An Allahabad paper estimates that coin and gems to the value of $1,350,000,000 are locked up in that country. In Amritsar City alone there are hidden jewels wbrth $10,000,000.

Statistical returns from Venezuela show great prosperity during the past fiscal year. The total exports reached $1,800,000 more than any year in the liistorv of the country, and the imports were $15,900,000, of which $1,600,000 come from England and $3,900,000 from the United States. Experiments at the Agricultural School in France show that mules have more digestive power than horses, and to this is attributed their greater Working capacity. In other words, mechanically speaking, you can burn more fuel and with less loss, and get more work out of it, by feeding it to a mule than to a horse. 1 The hypodermic blush is obtained by inserting coloring matter beneath the skin with the point of a syringe. The effect is described as marvelous. The blush lasts two hours. The owner is indescribably beautiful for that period. Afterward she becomes a greenish-yellow complexion, and cannot wear her blush too often because the syringe marks the skin with an ugly little scar. This discreet resolution was adopted recently by the trustees of a schoolhouse in Monticello, Ga.: “Whereas, the big hickory near the left-hand of Ben Hill Academy being dead, and that if it should fall on any of the children Between their seventh and seventeenth year and near the small of the back, they would surely die; therefore resolved that we hire an unbleached American to raze the aforesaid hickory tree to the ground.”

Daswin used to go into the Zoologi- # Gardens in London, and. standing the glass case containing the cobra di capello, put his forehead against the glass -while the cobra struck out at him. The glass was between them; Darwin’s mind was perfectly convinced as to the inability of the snake to harm him; yet he would always doge. Time after time he tried it, his will and reason keeping him there, his instinct making him dodge. The instinct was stronger than both will and reason. So many glassworks are being erected in this country, more especially for plate-glass manufacture, that it is becoming a question as to where the skilled workers are to be obtained to fill them. The number of furnaces and pots at present operating and in course of construction is 1,090, of which 310 have been put into operation since 1888, and 390 will all be ready for operation soon. The manufacturers say that at least 1,500 skilled men will be necessary to fully equip these new works. Bbilliant light makes even a scantitly furnished room look cbeerfnl. But there are some people who know not bow to make their lamps burn well. A lamp should be thoroughly cleaned every fortnight The oil should be poured out of the fount, leaving no dregs on the bottom. The fount should