Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — MISSING LINKS. [ARTICLE]

MISSING LINKS.

California has a 3,300 acre prune orchard. Victoria, Australia, had a gold output of about $15,000,010 last year. Westminster bridge, built in 1750, was the first in which the foundations were laid by the aid of caissons. Some of the Comstock mines are so deep that no means has yet been devised to overcome the excessive heat. The green ants of Australia make nests by bending leaves together and uniting them with a kind of natural glue. As there were just thirteen marriages in Henniker. N. H., last year, the brides are all the objects of superstitious solicitude. Civil engineers say the wings of the butterfly display the greatest possiqle lightness combined with the greatest possible strength. In what are called “looming mirages” distant objects show an apparent extravagant increase in height without alteration in breadth. A Georgia girl iVho raises pigs marks them bv cutting their tail? off very short. She says it takes a bushel less' corn to fatten them thus. American buggies ate superseding those of English make in London ana Paris. The only light, graceful vehicles in Europe come from this country. A curious growth with unusual results is reported from Tombstone, Ari. The roots of a tree are said to have grown arouna a water pipe and caused it to break.