Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

No soap was made in England until 1521. The railrdads of this country employ 33,136 locomotives. Japanese children are taught to write with both hand-. About twenty-two thousand vehicles pass over London Bridge every day. The membership of the Ancient Order of Foresters is upwards of 850,000. The most ancient coins are of elec: trum—four parts of gold to one of silver. The Thames pours forty million cubic feet of water into the sea every hour.