Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Facts. [ARTICLE]

Facts.

Co-operative agriculture thrives in France. Manchester, Va., uses tramps in chain gangs. Syracuse students have human bone cane handles. Over 90 per cent, of Tennessee labor is native born. Galveston handles every year 700,000 bales of cotton. The city of Caracas, Venezuela, had a population of 50,000 in 1810 and 70,000 in 1891. The Philadelphia Board of Health has refused to declare consumption a contagious disease. Since 1840 the world’s production of meat has increased 57 per cent, that of grain 420 per cent. In China the edible dogs are known by their bluish-black tongues. They never bark, and are very laciturn. Four millions and a half are slaughtered annually. To ascerrain roughly the length of the day and night at any time oi the year, double the time of the sun’s rising, which gives the length of the night, and double the time of setting, which gives the length of the dayl