Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

I Coke is sent from West Virginia to Mexico. Coal is dearest in Africa; cheapest in China. i Boston telephones to Milwaukee,; 1,300 miles. The largest locomotive weighs 255,000 pounds. The Bank of England covers nearly three acres. A SILKWORM’S thread is 1-1000 part of an inch thick. Six women of England are engineers of town drainage. Like a beautiful flower full of Color, but without scent, are the firte but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.—Buddha. Wherex er-I find a greart deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would ba as much generosity if he weiearich man.—Pope. The colonies of Spain, once stretching over more than one-half of the new world, are now confined to the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico and a few islets on the east of the latter. Waves exert a force of one ton per square inch when they are only twenty feet high. 1 At Cassin, France, granite blocks of fifteen cubic meters have been moi ed by wave force.