Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. [ARTICLE]

THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.

THE Bible contains 3,565,480 letters, 810,697 wordß, 31,175 verses, 1189 chapters, and 66 books. The longest ohapteris the 119thFsalm;the shortest and middle ohapter is the 117th Psalm. And the middle verse is the Bth of the 118th Psalm. The longest names are intheßthohapteroflsalah. The word “and" ocours 46,627 times;the word ‘Lord’llßss times. The 37th ohapter of Isaiah and the 19th ohapter of the 2d book of Kings are alike. The longest verse is the 9th of the Bth ohapter of Esther; the shortest verse is the 35th of the llthohapter of John. In the 21st verse of the 7th ohupter of Ezra is the alphabet. The finest pieoe of reading is the 26th ohapter or Aots. The name of God is not mentioned in the book of Esther. It Contains Knowledge, Wisdom, Holiness and Love. The MoKinlcy Bill is from beginning to end an exclusively party soheme, deliberately, inflexibly and irresistably foroed upon the oountiy by a disciplined and teriorized congressional majority, at the behests of wealthy industrialists who, in consideration of this servioe rendered, have contributed funds-and influence for oarrying the eleotion in the interest of the a now in asoendenoy, or more oorf, of certain party leaders. It will stand upon the statute books as the grossest and most corrupt exercise of legislative power ever perpetra ed in the history of the country, and as the signal monument of a point of departure at whioh wealth and corrupt politics joined hands lu alliance for defeating publio opinion iu the government of the nation.- New York Commercial Bulletin (non-partisan).