Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — SOME HARD FACTS. [ARTICLE]

SOME HARD FACTS.

Br.i.vD men tunc pianos. Thebe is a buckwheat trust. Da ky scliools are spreading. ■ I'EEit Mena are of aluminium.Ciii'iiAN money Is pa tel card. A veinols drives a Moscow cab. . i ..A coiyh 6mm^ao,ono. A ZviiV prince i »a Ohio waiter. j Inn.in:,e y is paved with marble. L jCisiana uses molasses for Juel. Uncle Sam has 475,350 telephones. Elovi. L SOO a ton in Now Zealand. Flat-ikons are heated by electricity. Lon a Island has a Chinese farmer. The ship Texas will cost $3,000,000. India lias the largest masonry dam. Kansas has twenty-two women editors. Gekmany eats American dried apples. England has u 125-year-old grapevine. Oub telephones employ 8,465 persons. Gehmany raises 250,0C0 canaries ~ year. n’ew Yoke Italians have a fruit exli • bition. A Texas woman runs a 700,00 -ilt ranch, A device registers the w. ight on scales. ItuBIBS are more valuable than dia niouds. We mined 10,000,000 barrels of sal in 1891. jfhick is made from chipped granite and clay. Amebica has fifty-three telepiioncompanies. Austkalia has the longest roj e—--10,670 vards. A New South Wales bank owns 8,500,000 acres. The wealth of the United States U $63,648,000,01)0, —New York Commerc.al Advertiser.