Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — Curious Items. [ARTICLE]

Curious Items.

Tho oldest coin In the world is an JEglan pieco of the year 700 B. C. The thlnnos.t tissue paper measures 1-1,200 of an inch in thickness. The Krupp Gun Works claims a machine which will roll iron so thin that it would take 1,800 shoets to make an inch. A census of tho grpat trees of California, the “giant redwoods.” reveals the fact that there are even 2,075 of them left, the averago diameter bein { 3J feet. Hekoham’h Pills euro sick headache, disordered liver, and act like magic on the vital organs, For sulo by all druggist* The sign over a Boston store reading “Pickles and Now York Sunday Papers” Is outclassed by one recently discovered In a Georgia village, which advertises “Ax Handles, Ink, Pens and Cheese.” The speed of the falcon often exceeds 130 miles an hour.