Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — CURIOUS FACTS. [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS FACTS.

St. Peter’s Church in Rome will contain 54.100 persons. The extreme breadth of Texas is 760 miles and its extreme length 620. . The takings of London theaters and, music halls exceed $7,500,000 yearly. SOME words in the Chinese language have as inwny as forty different meanings. OrangLs and lemons will keep well if hirng iri a wit-e hM in a cool and airy place. 1 Pauline Hall has $60,000 worth of diamonds. She tays she never lost one in her life. It would take about 1.200 globes as .large as our earth to make one equal in size to Jupiter. When milk is used in tumblers, wash them first in cold water, afterward rinse in hot water. A little flour dredged over a cake, before icing it will keep the icing from spreading and running off. * Lord Rosebery’s “Life of Pitt” ranks among the most brilliant biographical and historical works of thetime