Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — PASSING EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

PASSING EVENTS.

Drunkenness is the most common •flense in Russia. The most frequent crime in California is burglary. California convicts each cost the State 32 cents a day. Dublin, with a population of 350, • iIOO, has 1,146 police. Last year there were in Vienna 316 suicides and 338 attempts. Iron and steel are made by native tribes in the interior of Africa. In Australia a 17-year-old giant measures 8 feet 3 i inches and weighs 800 pounds. The Pope will shortly publish a jubilee encyclical, which will be a political religious, and social testament. The public executioner ol Austria wears a pair of new white gloves every time he carries out a capital sentence. In Chinese the letter “i" has 145 ways of being pronounced, and each pronunciation has a different meaning. The average cost of building an English ironolad is $240 per ton; French, $275; Italian, $285; German, 1300. AT the present rate of increase there will be 63,000,000 people in Canada In fifty years’ time, and 190,000,000 In the United States. Moles differ from bacteria, acoord!ng to Prof. Frankland, in action, and produoe an oxidation or burning up. Instead of fermentation. Archbishop Satolli will not be made a Cardinal at the March consistory, as the Pope wishes him to remain In America tor the present.

the estimated imputation of Mecca Is about 60,000, while the number of pilgrims massed together there 1 .at year from all parts of the Moslem world was variously estimated at from 200,(XX) to 300,000. The normal temperature of a man is about 98.5 degrees; of the snail, 7 degrees; oyfeter, 82 degrees; porpoise, It q degrees; rat, cat or px, 102 degrees*, sheep, 101 degrees', hog, iOS degrees; chicken. ; ! ’ u -grees. How East it is to plan out a path to pursue, and how hard it is follow it when you start out on your journey. Ip you have a single friend on earth, no matter how humble or insignificant he may be, strive to keep his confidence. Don’t be too profuse in your thanks to the man who lets you have your own way. He may be doing it to cure you of a folly. A man was never so rich or p -wer ul that he had friends who would care tor ids children, if he should become suddenly poor.