Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Missing Links. [ARTICLE]

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A locomotive has just been bu It al the Cfewe works of the London and Northwestern Railway which is capable of drawing a train at the rate of lOC miles an hour. Is Queensland. Australia, a sound horse can be bought for §5, and in some parts of New South Wa'es horses are sc overplentiful that they are got rid of by shooting. In the Austrian army suicides average 10,000 a year. Th s does not in lude foiled attempts and it represents 20 pet cent of the general mortality among Austrian soldiers. A house in Dedham, Mass., built in 1636, is occupied by a family, the de scendants of the original builders They appreciate the antiquity and will show visitors all through it for 25 cent 1 . It is said that the first regular theatrical company to perform in the United IStates came from England In 1752 and landed at York, in Virginia. Its first public appearance was at Williamsburg, Va. A popular not’on is that the whereabouts of a drowned person may be ascertained by floating a loaf weighted with quicksilver, which is said at once to swim toward and stand over the spot where the body lies. This 1s a very widespread belief, and instances of its occurrence are, from time to time, recorded. ~