Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — OLLA PODRIDA. [ARTICLE]

OLLA PODRIDA.

The czar’s throne is said to be worth four times as much as Queen Victoria’s. The Mississippi deposits in the sea in a year solid matter weighing 812,500,000,000 pounds. Sixty persons now pccupy Robinson Crusoe’s island Juan Fernandez. They are cattle herders. The Corean does not have the trouble of carrying his umbrella in his hand. It is like an ordinary umbrella in shape, only it is smaller and has no handle. It is made of oil paper and is worn on the head over the hat. In the Vatican at Rome there is a marble statue with natural eyelashes, the only one with this peculiarity in the world. It represents Ariadne sleeping on the island of Naxos at the moment when she was deserted by Theseus. A monstrosity is carefully guarded on the farm of W. H. Reynolds, at Gannon, Tex. It is a pig with head and ears like those of an elephant, a nose like the trunk of the beast just named, and a single eye where the mouth ought to be. The famous Tyrian dye was discovered in this way: A man and his dog were one day walking on the seashore, when the dog ate a murex, a species of small shellfish, and his master noticed that his lips were at once tinged with the royul color, which soon became as famous as it was difficult to obtain.