Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — BY THE WAY. [ARTICLE]

BY THE WAY.

There are only sixty-eight paper mills in Scotland, but there are 1,43:', in Germany. An Ohio woman has a pair of pink stockings which she says were worn by Queen, Elizabeth of England. October is the month in which moat of the insects perish. Only a few survive the chill dawns and sunsets. Kentucky is just now boasting of a well, the “clear, limpid, drinkable waters of which are as inflammable as naphtha.” A Swedish gentleman wears a watch chain made from one of his own ribs, taken from his body by a surgical operation. A wealthy man In California lias re cently torn down several costly houses In order to convert his lands Into wheat fields. Roses bloom every day In the year in California. Near Hayward thero is a rose bush that covers nearly half an acre of ground. A Connecticut farmer recently found a package of 100 81,000 bills. Imagine his disappointment when he found that they were counterfeit. Sir John Lubbock kept ants in captivity for eight years, or even more, but even ants, in a state of nature, reach probably a much less venerable age.