Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — This and That, [ARTICLE]

This and That,

One of the biggest of the insurance companies in this country Is said to pay its woman manager §10,003 a year. A French officer in Buiston has invented a hippometer which will register the paces and ground covered by a horse. William Jackson, of Ellsworth, Ms., has lost six wives within the last liftyfive years, the last having died a few weeks since. The first vessel launched by the early American colonists was the Blessing of the Bay, launched in Massachusetts Bay, July 4, 1631. * Humboldt County, California, has a population of 33,000 and *17,000,003 taxable wealth, but it is unconnected with the world by railroads. It is stated that In 1890 the number of persons killed in India by snakes was 21,412, while the number of snakes slaughtered was 510,659. The largest chickeu ranch in the world is said to bo on an inland in Bellingham Bay, Puget Sound. Its owner claims to have 100,000 fowl. Four skeletons of giants have been unearthed near Florence, Mo. There is a tradition that four mule loads'of gold are buried in the same vicinity. The frog, owing to its peculiar structure, cannot breathe with the mouth open, and if it were forcibly kept open the creature would die of suffocation. Chemists have extracted from coal tar sixteen shades of blue, sixteen of yellow, twelve of orange, nine of violet; besides shades of other colors t:o numerous to mention.