Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Hebrew vs. Yankee. [ARTICLE]

Hebrew vs. Yankee.

“Has the Jew, with his reputation as the champion of commercial prosperity, not found in the Yankee more than his match? Has he not in reality been outdone, and does not his future in these parts seem but a 1 dreary one?” The foregoing inquiry! appears in the American Hebrew,; and the inquirer is Max J. Ullman, of New Bedford, Mass. The wire rope used In the tunnel at Glasgow, Scotland, is the largest'and longest wire cable in the world. It was made at Cardiff, Wales, in 1884, and is 2,400 fathoms in length, or about two miles and 108 yards. It weighs twenty-one and one-half tons, and has nearly 100,000 fathoms of wire in its make-up.