Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Trance is the greatest wheat growing country in Europe, not excepting even Russia. The British "Isles comprises no fewer than 1,000 separate isles and islets. The flower trade of London is estimated to amount to $25,000 a day. A salmon weighing 371 pounds was caught recently near Bangor, Me. The Maine mackerel fleet lias had bad luck this year. Salem, Indiana, has an equal number of churches and saloons. Seventeen States and Territories comprise the National Irrigation Congress. Chicago’s manufactured products are valued at $600,000,000. St. Louis annually makes up and sells $225,000,000 of material. Nearly all collars used on workhorses in Belgium are made of iron.