Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

There are now silver watches made heart-shaped— The earth is the” greatest distance from the sun on the morning of July 6. Japan has no fewer than 700 earthquake observing stations scattered over the empire. A Brooklyn inventor proposes to tap the earth's Interior for heat and thus save fuel. The household maintained by the Queen of England consists of nearly 1,000 persons. While endeavoring to swallow a mouse an owl choked to death at Nockamlxon a few days ago. A Pbesbytebian pastor at Greenville, HI., has a pulpit lined with olive wood from the Mount of Olives. A New York curiosity iB an undertaker’s wagon, from the crevices of which oats are growing nicely. The fastest ship afloat is the City of Pekin, and she was built by Philadelphia ship builders. She cost $1,000,000. J. N. Andrews, of West Rockport, Me., interfered in a cat fight the other day, and now carries seventeen wounds. After absenting himself fer thirtytwo years, Edward Dimoch returned to his parents at Middletown, Conn., recently.