Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

One pound of cork will support a man of ordinary size in the water. In the Chinese Empire 400,000,000 people are struggling for existence. ’t’HERE are stars whose diameters are greater than that of our whole solar sysic n. It is saicT’the Congo Free State has decided to construct a telegraph line rom Bowa to Lake Tanganyika. An explosive with power equal to that of high-grade dynamite is being made in Germany from a preparation of common hemp. Judging from the way they fight with their m uths. there is nothing the matter with the champion pugilists’ wind. When the postage stamp was first resolved upon the postoffice authorities issued a prospectus, and offered the sum of $2,500 for t.he best design and plan for a stamp. Itjis said that no fewer than 3,703 designs were submitted by the “artits. men of science, and the public generally," to whom the propoal Was addressed. The penny stamp came first, and in July, 18i0, a two penny stamp was issued, and subsequently a complete series ranging in value from a half-penny to five shillings. I