Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — WAYSIDE GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.

There are more than 250,000 Swiss in the United States. Arizona is coming into the field as a rival of California in the fruit line. Of the sixty counties of Pennsylvania only seventeen aro free from debt. Savernake forest, one of the most famous estates in England, has been sold for $4,000,000. A philanthropic Brooklyn woman recently bought all the orioles, in a bird store aud set them free. The manufacture of false teeth for horses Is anew industry just opened in Paris with a capital of $2,000,000 francs. % Onyx is in danger of losing its special value. Besides the great deposits discovered in Missouri extensive layers have been found in Smyth county, Virginia. The British empire in India covers an area of 1,480,819 square miles, a territory nearly as largo as Europe without Russia. It has a population of about 200,000,000. The Coreans arc the largest eaters iuviwn. Their stomachs are generally abnormal iu size andJihe one possessing the largest is generally considered the richest. Tho Y. M. O. A.’s of the country now own property worth $12,250,000. One thousand and eighty-three persons aro engaged as paid officials and there are 225,000 memburs. History says the ancient Greeks used olive leaves for ballots, and the Australian votaug system is a revival of the practice iu Rome 2,000 years ago. History repeats itself. Modern improvements are often only the revival of an ancient vogue of some sort.