Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Russell Sage has the reputation of being a most abstemious man There are eighty anti-vaccination leagues in England and Scotland. Hermann, the Cannes perfumer, uses twenty tons of violets every year. Francis Murphy is the most efiectivo opposition the Keeley institutes have. Two hundred and forty-nine mail trains arrive at and leave Chicago every day. It is said that the clove importers are organizing against the new odorless whisky. A restaurant-keeper says celery wants to lie in cold water an hour before it is chewed. An alloy of 78 per cent of gold and 23 per cent, of aluminum is the most brilliant known. England and Ireland together drank 42,000,000 gallons more beer than Germany last year. To get rid of soft corns apply cotton wool soaked in castor oil. Bind it on with a piece of soft linen. Never sit on a damo cushion, moist ground, or a marble or stone step, if you wish to avoid a sore throat. Recent experiments show that with proper appliances ordinary gaslight can be used in taking photographs. Divers notice that when fish are frightened each variety seeks the shelter of the submarine growth nearest in color to the fish. By a recent appliance to kitchen ranges the refuse from the kitchen is thoroughly dried, converted into charcoal, and used as fuel. The use of the electric light has been found materially to reduce the amount of illness in factories which had previously used gas or oil for lighting. The largest gasometer, in the world is now being built for a London co npany. Its diameter will be 300 feet, and the height 180. Its capacity will be 12,000,000 cubic feet, and weight 2,220 tons. It will take 1,200 tons of coal to fill It with gas. Caught on the Fly. The greatest prayer is patience. Silence Is golden for a fool’s tongne. The mantle of earth is its land’s-cape. It is easier to blame than to do better. Hope is the dream of those who are awake. A haunted tavern is the home of an Inn-specter. It is the gin-phiz that Indicates the confirmed toper. When hope dies the devil adds another scalp to his belt Monstrosities find freak quarters in the dime musemu. “Time is money, * said a poor fellow as he pawned a dock.