Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Of Passing Interest. [ARTICLE]

Of Passing Interest.

SrxTEEN tons of steel pens are exported from Birmingham weekly. A conductor on a street railroad in Philadelphia speaks four languages. Brooklyn city officials took dinner in a newly finished sewer the other day. Some watches now made are guaranteed to keep time to within ten seconds a month. There are 487 schools in Irkutsk, Siberia. The population of Siberia is nearly 900,000. A Frenchman has‘invented an improved method of telegraphing, so that it is practicable to transmit 150 words per minute on a Blngle wire. The message when delivered from the machine is typewritten.