Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — OLLA PODRIDA. [ARTICLE]

OLLA PODRIDA.

London has a firm of opticians whose specialty is the sale of spectacles for horses. The object of the spectacle is to promote high stepping. There is a church in the town of Bergen, Norway, that is built entirely oi paper. It can seat 1,000 persons in comfort, and has been rendered waterproof by a solution of quicklime, curdled milk and white of eggs. Africa is 234 times as large as the State of New York. It is the most remarkable of all the countries as respects its animal distributions. Out of a total of 523 known species, 472 of them are to be found in no other country. The block which probably has the largest population of any in the world is in New York, bounded by Avenues B and C, Second and Third avenues. It has a population of 3,500, or at the surprising rate of. 1,000,000 to the square mile.