Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — This and That. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

This and That.

Norway has a water-proof paper church. There are 10,000 Chinese shoemakers in California. Russia makes 30,000,000 wooden spoons a year. Less than 800 persons own half the soil of Ireland. The world’s passenger cars can seat 1,500,000 people. The King of the Belgians always sleeps on a camp bed. Berlin’s richest citizen has an annual income of $7,500,000. The canyons of Southern Californiaare alive with wild pigeons. Boise (Idaho) is now heated by water from a hot spring near the city. The writings of Mr. Gladstone fill twenty-two pages of the British Museum printed catalogue. Mbs. B.vllington Booth is said to receive but $7 per week for her services to the Salvation Army. f Speaker Crisp is constantly in receipt of invitations to attend various celebrations and is uniformly declining them. The Rajah of India, who likes showy things, has bad made a furniture set all of glass. Glass bedsteads and chairs, huge glass sideboards and other articles of domestic use.