Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — Missing Links. [ARTICLE]

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Salvador has a telephone school. Russia has twenty two ironclads and monitors building. Tuckerton, Pa., is to have a vinegar vat that will hold 1,000 barrels. Thirty barrels of incense were burned during a three-days ceremodial in Siam recently. The waters of Lake Erie are to be piped into Cincinnati, taking in other cities en route. There are 700 Americans residing in the City of Mexico, some of whom own the houses they occupy. Dates arc grown at Phoenix. A. T. A cluster weighing over eighteen pounds was recently picked there. Statistics show that the male lation of the civilized world is falling farther and farther behind the female. The manufacture of false teeth for horses is a new industry just opened in Paris with a capital of 2,000,C00 francs. A female clerk at Washington has a hot house, and last year sold IuO.OOO violets. She thinks of resigning and becoming a florist. Coal put in brown-paper bags can be placed on the fire noiselessly, and thus the invalid Is spared the annoyance of hearing the rattle of coal. It is said that the Palo Alto University, established by Leiand Stanford, has 1,000 more applicants for admission this year than there arc accommodations for. The best endowed insane asylum in the country is the Sheppard Asylum, in Baltimore, on which SSfO.CO) lias been speut, while nearly as much remains for future use The chief caterer of fashionable society in Washington is a woman, who occupies a most unpretentious little shop. She has served every President since the days of Harrison's grandfather. And now cottonwood comes to the front as a sugar factor. A Southern grower says its saccharine qualities are fifteen times greater than sugar cane and twenty times stronger than beets A resident or Antelope Yallej-, Nevada, tells the Reno Gazette tha£ the valley is full of grasshoppers depositing their eggs, and suggests that unless the ground is burned aver there will be trouble ahead in a year or two from these pasta