Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — All Sorts. [ARTICLE]

All Sorts.

The Gulf stream flows at the rate of four miles an hour. Banner County, Nebraska, boasts of a new bom baby who weighs 20$ pounds. Michigan has nearly 87,000 Methodists, with church property valued at over $3,750,000. An insect in the ear may be drowned out with tepid water, or killed by a few drops of sweet oil. Perhaps the most happily named man in England is Thankful Joy, a Hampshire cricketer. The first elevated road in Great Britain will be in Liverpool. The road is already in the course of construction. Catholic congregations in Prussia are increasing in much greater proportion than the increase of the population. A hunting-hobn in Limoges enamel, made in 1530, and believed to have formerly belonged to Horace Walpole, was sold recently for $31,500. Beginning in October Russian will be taught in two of : the Paris colleges and perhaps be put on the same footing as German and English. Small electric lamps are J>eing tried by the London police in place of the oldfashioned oil bull’s-eyes. The experiments have proved highly satisfactory thus far. In speaking of the solidification of &. body by cooling, Professor Dewar says that water can be made to become solid by the evaporation of a quarter of its weight. A blue crane, a rare bird in that region, was shot the other day near Manistee, Mich. It measured six feet from tip to tip of wings and five feet from head to feet. A Florida silver half dollar of 1760 is worth $lO, while the Virginia silver half dollar of 1773 is valued at $2. The pewter Continental dollar of 1776 is worth $3. i Investigations of rain drops’lead'to the conclusion that some of the lafge drops must be more or less hollow, as they fail when striking to wet the whols surface Inclosed within the drop.