Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Facts and Fancies. [ARTICLE]

Facts and Fancies.

There are so many reformeis who never want to do any work at home. Cotton soaped in olive-oil and turpentine, and put in the ear, often stops earache of the most painful kind. An old clipper ship has just made the fastest time on record between Japan and this country, being out but twentytwo days. The Bank of Scotland issued onepound notes as early as 1704, and their issue has since been continued without interruption. Only citizens who are able to read and write have the power to vote in Bolivia and several other'South American republics. In England an American diploma of medicine does not entitle its possessor to call himself M. D. If ho does he may be prosecuted. ’A fur establishment in Chicago has just completed for a feminine resident an ulster in which are 125 mink skins and 350 tails. The remains of ancient hot air baths and sweat houses still exist on the Island of Rathin, on the northeast coast of County Antrim, Ireland. A distinguished Egyptologist has recently unearthed, with a lot of his mummies, a will probably made 4,450 years ago, but, curiously, quite modern in form. In Eastern New Mexico nearly 600,000 acres of fruit and farm lands have been reclaimed by the construction of storage reservoirs and irrigating canals during the past two years. Don’t expect a man to do anything for you on account of anything you have already done for him, but if you intend doing more for him, tell him and get what you want in advance. The father of eleven sons has applied for a salaried position in a base-ball club. He says he never played a game in his life, but he has had twenty years’ experience in making base-hits. A Gainesville (Texas) girl has probably the longest hair in the world. It is ten feet six inches long. The present growth is of the past seven years, as in 1884 her head was shaved during a spell of brain fever. It is asserted that the idea of the slot machine is very old. In an inn in one of the rural districts of England the tobacco for the guests was kept in a box which was opened by an English penny; this box was certainly, so the landlord averred, 150 years old.