Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — PASSING EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

PASSING EVENTS.

Rome has twenty-five Protestant churches. Thebe is a newspaper in London which is printed in scented ink. Nearly four fifths of the sugar plantations in Hawaii a* e owned by Americans. One-third of the crime committed in London is perpetrated on Saturday nights. There are 300 nev. tpapera published in Fleet street, London, 11 of which are dailies. There are considerably over a hundred thousand acres devoted to tobacco in Virginia. Six hundred buildings in New York city have been condemned as unsafe by the firo department. A company to insure tobacco planters against loss by hail is one of the latest schemes In tonnectieut Connecticut last year took out more patents in proportion to population than any other State in the Union. Recent experiments show that California redwood is the most nearly fireproof of all building woods known. The statement Is made that In all their w%rs ho British have won the average of 8 per cent, oi the battles. Harvard C u.eOl is 235 years od, and lias graduated 17,000 st dents. A little more than ha f of them are living. Awim; recent inventions elm tricity is now in use‘for heating ( at irons used by tailors, and ts employment in therapeutic- is constantly on the increase. T wo acres of land adiaeent to tho London Houses of Parliament have been advertised for sale at A 1,000,000 sterling. The fall of rain in the mountains of Southern California l as greatly Increased since the formation of Salton Lake.