Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — MISSING LINKS. [ARTICLE]

MISSING LINKS.

There have been 11,000 applications for admission as students to the new Leland Stanford, Jr., University, in California. A torpedo has been tried at Horsea Island that can out through a net without exploding. It is the invention of »n Italian firm. The directors of one of the principal railway companies in Great Britain are considering the proposal for the entire removal of the class system. The British poacher is now being followed by the electric search light. A light severtal miles away recently detected and identified a couple of them. There are 161 Important steam navigation companies in the world, of wh ch the English own 64, the French 35 and the Germans 12. In the United States there are 15. The average age of British soldiers is twenty-seven years; their death rate is nine per 1,000, and of every 100 seventy are English, twenty Irish, eight Scotch and two colonial. Last year there was a potato famine. This year, in one California district naar Sacramento, 60,000 bushels of potatoes were not dug up because it would not pay to market them. BLAck potatoes called “oetewajo" are raised In Ziipland. Some philologist should explain whether the famous king gave them their name or took his own appellation from them. Densely populated as it is in some places, the earth has room for a great many more people. It is estimated that there are twenty-two and a half acres for every living person. Astronomers say a shot fired on the equator of Jupiter would travel at a rotary motion with a speed forty-six times greater than that of a cannon ball fired at thoearth’s equator. A French Afirabeau, says Maurice Maeterlinck, <a new writer in Belgium, has put iirto his “Princess Matone” things more beautiful than the most beautiful thlngn in Shakspeare. Along the creole coast, between Mobile and New Orleans, roses of the Marechai Niel, Jacqueminot and other rare varieties are abloom all winter, n»> matter what the weatiher is. Down In what is termed the “black belt” of Virginia, thei e are ten negroes, to one white man. Here blacks keep up their old traditions and customs, which are quite different flrom those of the whites. On the eastepi frontier of the “Dark Continent” coal is so plentiful that by lifting a shovelful of clay off any particular spot it may be reached But there is no rneans of transporting it to market.