Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — This and That [ARTICLE]

This and That

Yarn is made of leather scraps. Colorado has 3,000,000 acres irrigat'd. Mexico’s biggest gold nugget weighed 141 pounds. The new bridge over the Missouri River at Omaha has been opened. A new gold field, twenty miles square, has been discovered near Hartzel, Colo. The purer the water the more active it is in corroding and pitting iron or steel plates. When oxygen is in a liquid state it is strongly attracted by a powerful electro magnet. England makes 100,000,000 needles a year, while the United States turn out over 80,000,000. It is proposed by a Maine man to make hoops for orange boxes out of paper. Why not for ban els, too? About 10.000,000 bushels of bituminous coal will be floated down the Ohio ftism Western Pennsylvania on the present flood. An electrical engineer wants to throw advertisements by electric light against the falling sheet of water at Niagara Falla.