Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1892 — Out of the Ordinary. [ARTICLE]

Out of the Ordinary.

Fully four times us many people speak Chinese as speuk the English language. In France the average family comprises three members; in England, four; in Ireland, five. The constant use of the telephone produces impaired hearing, headache, and nervous excitability. During the past twelve years tho value of farm land in Kansas has advanced fully 25 per cent. A harness that looks luminous in the dark has been Invented. It is intended to prevent collisions at night. The wind blows constantly from a well 100 feet deep in Tacoma, Wash. No one knows the source of the wind. A Cincinnati court has decided that it is libelous to call a man who neglects to pay his tailor’s bills “a delinquent.” The salary of the King of Samoa Is only SB4O a year. His legal adviser is much better remunerated. His pay is $5,000 a year. Colorado’s “pay dirt” last year in gold, silver, copper, and lead amounted to $33,548,034. Her smelters’ product amounted to $44,010,193. If any W estern gills want to open negotions they arc herewith further informed that tho nume of the love-sick jurist is Judge J. A. Koebuck. Two litigants in Boston have very suggestive and antagonistic names. When the clerk called tho case, he shouted, “Paine vs. Bliss.” The smallest steam engine ever made has been constructed by a machinist in Chemnitz, Saxony. The fly-wheel is two-flfths of an inch in diameter. Eugene Winchet, of Dayton, Ohio, is a popular man. Ho owns a street railway in that city, and permits all the working girls to ride for half fare. Careful investigation in Prussia reveals the remarkable fact that the average life of Jews in Prussia is five years longer than that of Christians. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, is to have an immense cocoanut tree from Honolulu. It weighs six tons, is already boxed, and awaits shipment. The population of New York town, as estimated by the health department, was 1,680,796 July 1, 1891, as against 1,631,232 in 1880.