Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

contract for the erection, on his beautiful estate at Oakdale,of a poultry house to cost $15,000. It will be 385 feet long, and it will contain, in conjunction with original ideas of Mr. Vanderbilt’s, every improvement known to professional breeders.

The fastest mile man has traveled by various methods of locomotion is, to date, as follows : Swimming, 26:52; walking, 6:23; snow shoes, 5:39}; rowirig, 5:01; running, 4:12|; tricycle, 2:49 2-5; bicycle, 2:29 4-5; skating, 2:12 3-5; trotting horse, 2:08f; running horse, 1:35; railroad, 0:40|; baloon, pneumatic tube, and electricity records are yet to be made.’ The civilisation of the Kiowa Indians is nearly complete. Mrs. Teva Keotah, one of their number, in a letter from Idaho, declares that the women of the tribe have fotmed a sewing society and need a sewing machine. “These Indian women,” she adds, “will not and cannot be made to wear a dress, but they like to see their children clothed like the whites.” The sentence of twelve months’ imprisonment passed upon Captain Verney, of the Royal Navy, is severer than is generally imagined. His imprisonment will be on what is known as the “silent-system,” and while it carries no work with it, the system is recognized by criminals to be worse than confinement with hard labor. The “hard-labor” man gets enough to itat, but the “silent-system” man exists in a state of semi-starvation. For this high-fed navy officer the outlook is decidedly gloomy—as it ought to be. George Maulden, who lived in Reynoldstown, Ga., has been for sixteen or seventeen years a.Hicted with a terrible cough and what wai believed to be catarrh. While bathing his face the other morning he blew out of his left nostril a piece of knife-blade about an inch long. It looked like a piece of hone. When the outer covering was removed, however, it proved to be £> piece of a steel knife-blade. When but a boy of ten years a negro boy stabbec' him in the left cheek in a boyish scrim mage. He did not know that a portion of the blade was left in his cheek.

There is said to be an old negro in Talbot County, Georgia, who learned to spell in a curious way in slavery times. His owner lived in a sparely settled neighborhood, and he being a small boy was sent along to accompany the children to school. The teaches would not allow him to go into the school-room when the pupils were reciting. This aroused his curiosity, and he would stealthily approach the door and repeat after the spelling class until he could spell every word in Webster’s blue-back spelling book before he ever knew the alphabet. He now reads and spells very well. A prominent life-insurance man, ad dressing the alumni of Bellevue Medical College in New York the other day, gave them some “pointers” on making out proofs of death for insurance companies. “When you are absolutely stuck,” fie said, “say it’s the ‘grip.’ Don’t say it’s malaria—l think the public has caught on to that. When a man dies of delirium tremens put it down as ‘congestion of the brain,’ and if he dies from drunkard's liver, call it ‘cirrhosis.’ It is my opinion that nine officers out of ten think that is a female disease and has some connection with ‘sorosis.’ ” Any one who has examined lists of insured persons who have died will have noticed that “congestion of the brain” and “cirrhosis of the liver” are sadly frequent in causei of death. A Ukiah, Cal., man, the owner of a three-story hop house, recently conceived the idea of turning the building into a mammoth incubator for the hatching of chickens. In a few weeks he had the place in condition, and the furnace was set to work on a setting of 6,000 eggs. At the expense of a cord and a of wood between 1,500 and 2,000 chickens were chirping in the hop house at the end of the period of incubation. This is not a very good average for a first-cla<s incubator, but it is thought that with the exercise of more care better results can be obtained. The Ukiah man has given evidence of hii faith in the practicability of the scheme by setting a second hatch of 24,000 eggs, which will be out in about two weeks.

The American Consul at Victoria, B. C., who refused to honor a toast to Queen Victoria, did neither himself nor his country credit by his boo.ishness. No good American is called upon towea.his patriotism offensively. In the British dominions Consul Ewing was only a guest, and it certainly did not become his position to treat his host offensively. He might take a lesson from the urbanity of Benjamin Franklin, when at the Fi each Court he drank first to the toast proposed by the English diplomate. who compared England to the sun, the most regal object in the heavens. The French Minister proposed a toa-4 to France, which, like the moon, had next to the sun ike most influence on terrestial affairs, in causing the tiles and otherwise. Then came Franklin s turn. Slowly rising up he said: “I propose the hedth of George Washington, who, like Joshua, commanded the sun and moon to stand still and they obeyed him!” That was the gentlemanly and diplomitic way of asserting the dignity of this great country, and it was done so neatly that no offense could be taken. Our Consul at Victoria should study Benjamin Franklin’s way.