Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

About the only women in the world who swing their arms when walking are Americans. Tennessee has passed a law providing that school directors must be able to read and writeA Washington. D. C., colored man has been arrested thirty-three times since Nov. 23, 1890. He will have a rest now, as his last sentence was 364 days to jail. Phcenicia was at the pinnacle of power between the years 2000 and 750 B. C., and, in fact, its people were the instructors and civilizers of the whole western world. An arc lamp with four carbons arranged radially in a nearly horizontal plane, but having their central meeting points slightly depressed, has lately appeared in Paris. Accuracy of statement is the aim of a certain Maine newspaper. It recently gravely stated that a large number of “fresh” mackerel had just been caught off Portland harbor. While Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt’s Alva was steaming through a storm on her way to Villefran'che, an enormous wave deposited a seventy-pound turtle on the deck. It was good to eat, and therefore was eaten. The difference between the 50,000 Americans found in Italy and the 500,000 Italians found in the United States is that the former are rich and go there to spend, and the latter are poor and come here to accumulate. There are are 152 British peers who between them own 1,539 places where intoxicants are sold. The list is headed by the Eax-l of Derby, who is the owner of seventy-two drinking places. Next comes the Duke of Bedford with fortyeight. The average soundings in the open Atlantic give a depth of two or three thousand fathoms. The sun’s rays illumine this mass of water to a depth of two or three hundred fathoms only. The greater part of the ocean bed is thus pitch dark.

At Mont Del, in Brittany, the remains of about 100 elephants have been discovered, gathered on a small surface of about 1,900 square meters. All the bones are broken, and it is thought that the animals must have been eaten by prehistoric men. j • ' r M. D’Ennatskt, the Russian gentleman who bet 25,000 roubles that he would drive his troika from Samara to Paris in eighty days, reached Paris oa March 17, twenty-two days ahead of time. He used three little Ural horses, the maximum distance covered for any day being about 120 miles. Fob a given number of people who can use railroads, Austria provides more trains than India, Germany more than Austria, England more than Germany, and the United States more than England. Each concession to the public convenience in this matter involves a loss which must be p aid for somewhere. Frank Campbell, a storekeeper at "Victoria, B. C., who died recently, was noted for his good humor and widespread charity, and was also widely known as editor of the “Bulletin.” This was not a paper, but a big blackboard, on which was placed every bit of local news as soon as it was known. The people consulted the “Bulletin” with as much confidence as they did their newspapers. Edison, when in Paris, laid great Btress upon the fact that it was dangerous to be sending, side by side with gas conduits, through subterranean Paris, electrical currents by wires oharged with high-tension currents, and predicted that explosions would be the result. Many explosions from this cause are now occurring in Paris, and newspapers of that city are reverting to Edison’s warning. An insult to the national bird of freedom was perpetrated bv an unpatriotic darky in East Nashville, Tenn. He deals in poultry, and berog short of stock the other day, he killed, and sold as a turkey, a forty-year-old eagle which his former master had given to him at the close of the war. The purchaser could not sink his teeth in the flesh of the tough fowl, brought it back, and had the darky arrested for his irreverent treatment of the national bird. The young fops who congregate at the rear doors of theaters, to view the ballet girls as they emerge after the performance, may heed the warning lately administered by the proprietor of the Central Theater, Philadelphia. He had repeatedly requested the welldressed sidewalk statues to pass on. They heeded him not until the other day, when, without a hint of what was coming, he turned the hose on them. One of the fops has sued the manager for $l5O, the cost of a ruined suit of clothes. - ' i A New York merchant noticed, in the course of years, that each successive bookkeeper gradually lost his health, and finally died of consumption, however vigorous and robust he was on entering his service. At length