Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — Passing Events. [ARTICLE]

Passing Events.

A complete Irish village will be a featuro of the World’s Fair. It is said there are only two women physicians in France. Chicago has a bureau which*gives legal advice free to the poor. Five-eighths of tho bread bake! in London is made of American wheat. The Emperor of China has ten men whose sole duty is to carry his umbrella. A Philadelphian has a garden on his roof where he grows his own vegetables. Japan has no fewer than 700 earth-quake-observing stations scattered ovei the empire. The manufacture of false teeth for horses is a new industry just opened in France. Secretary Rusk proposes to have a plantation of rubber trees in the eveTglades of Florida. Since tho Franco-Prussian war Germany has spent $‘2,200,000,1)00 on hei army and navy. Anew lining for bearings is reported from Germany as composed of a compressed vegetable parchment. A French physician has discoverec the composition of quinine, he claims, and can now produce it artificially. The government of the Tyrol has passed a bill imposing a heavy fine upon any person caught selling edelweiss. In some part or other of the world horses, cattle and sheep are found wild, but nowhere can be found wild camels. Costa Rica is about to have a lavs making the sale of Indian antiquities to foreigners a crime punishable with severe penalties. It has been ascertained that food costs $243.65 per year tor each family in the United gtates, while in Europe the cost is $222.50. The Salvation Army in England is going to open a matrimonial bureau, nol free, but with a regular price if a suitable partner is procured. In a full return of the vintage in Spain last year, the total yield was .>40,000, r 0C gallons, and it is described as good in 1C provinces, fairly good in 34, and bad in 5. Some large blasts of rock have been made to provide material for the new harbor of refuge at Brest, as much as 100,000 cubic yards being thrown out ai one time. Formerly tho greater part of Iris! buttei was packed into firkins, but the farmers are now turning their attention to making butter suitable for proserving in tins. Cheesemaking in Canada has enormously improved within recent years as a result of the method of instruction which has been promoted by the government in sending competent instructors among the cheesemakers. After tho locomotive department oi the Argentine Great Western Railroad had mastered the question of using petroleum as fuel, and most excellent results had been attained, the supply oi oil gave out, owing to the borings not going deep enough, and wood and coal are again being used. A New HAMPSHiRE man has invented a lawn-sprinkler that is self-propelling. A truck carries a kind of stand-pipe connected with the water supply, and the sprinklers, revolving by the pressure of the escaping water, drive a shaft which- engages by means of a worm gear with the wheels of the truck. A new use has been found for diamonds, in assisting marksmen in their shooting. Tho cut stones are fixed in the front and back sights, and It is said that they enable the gunner to take a quick and correct aim, and even when the light is bad. The brilliants are sc fitted that as so*>n as the gun is brought to the shoulder the rays in the genit assist alignment, and the eye takes aim without the least hesitation.