Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — Missing Links. [ARTICLE]

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There are 300 newspapers published in Fleet street, London, eleven of which are dailies. In the year 1635 a tulip bulb was sold in Hollarid for $2,200; it weighed but2oo grains,,-/St. Louis llepubiic. Pin IBook, Hog Eye, Rubber Neck and Hole-in-the-Ground are names of a few/of the po.stoffices in Missouri. y/ The ruins of Bluebeard's cast'e are said to still remain in a lonely mountain road near Interlaken, Switzerland. Coal soot is believed to be the cause of the decline and death of the magnificent shade trees at Cleveland, Ohio. When w a remember that o„r words may influence people for eternity we ought lo be very careful how wo speak. A temperature of 220 degrees below zero has been produced by a bath of carbon bf sulphide and liquid nitrous acid. Lord Salisbury bas made twenty-one new peers since he has been in office, besides raising the rank of several more. A wild Goost killed in California had a grain of wheat in its crop which, when p anted, produced a variety hitherto unknown. Clear summer sunlight is said to penetrate the Mediterranean Sea to a depth of 1,2C0 feet; winter sunlight to only 600 feet A cubic foot of new-fallen snow weighs five and a half pounds, and has twelve times the buik of an equal weight of water. A Kansas man has been compelled to pay a fine of *SO for kissing the hand ot a beautiful )s4# who objected to tbe faminority.