Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — QUAINT BITS. [ARTICLE]

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Lotteries in England were abolished in 1826. | The first harp was a tortoise shell, with a string tied across it. The French census shows a total of 390,000 foreign work people. ' AN .Egean piece of the year 700 B. C. is the oldest coin in the world. I The wall flower in floral language signifies fidelity in misfortune. | Something like 32,000 varieties of goods are manufactured f rom wool. I Chimneys were first put on houses of more than one story in Italy in 1347. I A spider’s eyes are not in his head, but in the upper part of the thorax. ' The earliest reaping hook was the I lower jaw of an antelope lashed to a , stick. | I The fashion of serving fish before meats began, it is believed, as far back ajß 1562. Japan, according to a new census just completed, shows a population of 41,089,940. France is the only great country which does not show an increa?e in population.