Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Strange and Curious. [ARTICLE]

Strange and Curious.

Thebe are 300,000 blind people in Europe. Maine has only nineteen cities within her borders. Blotting paper is made of cotton rags boiled in soda. Thebe are said to be sixteen men to one woman in Buenos Ayres. Electbic headlights of 2,500 candle power are in use on the Indiana railroads. A Bibmingham, Eng., man called White collected 540,000 pennies during his lifetime. Careful measurement has developed the fact that the pouch of a pelican will hold six gallons. In twelve years the city of Paris has expendeji $270,000 on statues and $85,000 on ornamental fountains. The curious custom of placing dolls on graves prevails among lot holders in the Baltimore cemeteries. A check for over $25,000,000, paid for the Kimbei-ly diamond mines, is said to be the largest check ever drawn. Mabgabet Fuller’s pincushion is exhibited and regarded reverently at the woman suffragists’ fair in Boston. A proud father is Robert Warren, of Allegheny, Pa. He has a two-year-old son who smokes three eigars a day. Experiments in London show that the atmosphere is the purest about thirty or forty feet above the street. Hammebfest, the most northern village in Europe, now has electric lights to dispel the gloom of the polar nights. Speaker Cbisp is a very close reader of the daily newspapers. He invariably reads them the first thing in the morning. She foreign diplomats at Washington indulge in tennis next to horseback, but not a single foreigner goes in for baseball. One of the oddest things on the tapis was the sale of five hundred miles of carpet at auction in New York City recently. The St. Andre de Poirier mine of France is the deepest in the world. It is now worked four thousand feet below Hie surface. Soapstone is used in various ways. It gives color to rubber goods, is used' in paper to gain weight and in making fireproof paints.