Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — OLLA PODRIDA. [ARTICLE]

OLLA PODRIDA.

Mt. Ararat, the resting place of the scriptural ark, is, in reality, two mountains separated by a valley. The higher peak is 17,210 feet, and the lesser 13,006 feet above sea level.

It is estimated that twenty-two acres of land sustain one man on flesS meat. The sa ; i c space of land, if devoted to wheat culture, would feed forty-two people; if to oats, cightv-eight; potatoes, Indian corn, and rice,, 176; and if to the plantain or bread tree, over 6,000 people.

Common Noons from Namks of Scientists. —Appended is a list of technical tenns, common nouns, derived from the names of scientific men. I shall be glad to have omissions pointed out. Ampere, coulomb, daguerreotype, davv, farad, galvanism, hessian, jacobian, joule, kyanism, lieberkuhn, moncrieffiau, nonius, oersted, ohm, orrery, pfaffian, talbotvpe, vernier, volt, watt, weber, wronskian.—[Notes and Queries. Some Curious Comparisons. —lt may interest the readers of The Tablet to lie informed that Greece is about the size of the State of Vermont; .that Palestine is about one-fourth the size of the State of New York, and that the Caspian Sea would reach from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. Hindoostan is about 25 times as large the State of New York, ‘and the Sahara Desert has almost exactly the number of square miles as the whole of the United States. The Mediterranean Sea would cut the United States in two across its greatest breadth, making an open sea from New York to VanCouver. Great Britain and Ireland have about the same number of square miles as Arizona—not so “great” after all! Madagascar is about as large as New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina combined. The area of England proper and that of the State of lowa are almost identical. How Moors Eat Butter. —A Western butterine company recently wrote to the United States Consular Agent at Casablanca, Morocco, asking if it would be feasible to introduce their product into that country. They received the following very curious and interesting letter in reply: U. S. Consular Agent, *•) Casablanca, Morocco, July 19,1892. [

Messrs.: Your favor of June 22 to hand and contents noted; and in reply I am sorry to say that nothing can' be done in this locality with the class of goods you speak of. Native butter is too plenty and too cheap to undertake to oompete with it at the distance you are writing. And, again, you give your goods a very bad recommendation to sell to the natives. You say it won't turn rancid; by that the Moors would imagine they could get no stink out of it, In which case it would be quite tasteless to them. They say of butter: No stink, no good 1 The Moors never pat salt in butter, and to prepare It for use they press it into stone jars, containing from ten $o forty pounds,’the apetture just large enough to pass their fist through; when full, or nearly so, they plaster the top over with soft cow dung, then bury it in the ground, and when it has been there from three to five years it is taken out all ready for use. It then contains all the colors of the rainbow, and as many different tastes and scents. Butter is of no use to the Moor until it is toned up to that pitch, and unless you can conjune up an article that will outstink the Moorish butter when prepared for use, don't write me any more on that subject. Ever at your command, J. Cobb.