Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Old Things in Different Lands. [ARTICLE]

Old Things in Different Lands.

There are more things with the stamp of antiquity on them in this country than many suppose. In Greenbush, a suburb of Albany, New York, .is a residence built in 1642 by the Van Rensselaer family, and which has been continuously inhabited since, In 1888, David Drew, of Plymouth, N. H., came into the possession of grains of maize taken from an Egyptian mummy- 4,000 years old. They grew when planted. In 1791 am apple tree was planted near-Newbury, Ohio, and before the tree bore fruit the planter was scalped by tlje Indians almost beneath its shadow. The tree still bears fruit. Jliekory Jim, the oldest race horse in the world, was running the present year at Guttenberg, N. J., aged ,23. Last year a barn was burned In Berks County, Pa., which was erected again in 1740, and in which Gen. Washington stabled his horses. Last summer Samuel Sands, the compositor on the Star Spangled Banner, died at the age of 92. He set up the immortal song in 1814. There is in Rome a painting of Christ from the second century. There is in the British Museum a bank note issued from tbe| imperial mint of China during the reignof the first Ming Emperor. The oldest mine of which there is record is in Musashi, Japan, which was first worked 1,1-83 years ago.