Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

Hoy, a 40,000-acre island in the Orkneys, with the famous pillar of rock, the “Old Man of Hoy,” 300 feet high, at its northern end, is offered for sale. From the time of Solomon the chronology of the Hebrews may l>e connected with that of Egypt, Assyria “and Babylon, and comparative views presented. The people of the United States use on an average 12,000,000 postage stamps of all kinds each and every day of the year, or a total of 4,380,000,000 per annum. The Greek year consisted of twelve months of twenty-nine and thirty days alternately; three times in eight years a mouth was added to make up the deficiency. On her last trip the Lueania, in order to save the tide at the Mersey bar, broke the record between Queenstown and Liverpool, making the 240 miles in ten hours. A pipe line to convey the product of the Los Angeles oil wells to the seaIward, either at San Pedro or Itedondo, is under the consideration of an Eastern capitalist. The “Era of the Martyrs,” a famous era in use in the early church, commemorates the tenth and last great persecution, by Diocletian, beginning Feb. 23, 284 A. D. The first cabbages grown in Great Britain were raised on the ground adjoining the Abbey of Arbroath, having been produced from seeds obtained from Artois, in France. Nearly the entire continent of Europe receives its supply of oleomargarine from New York and Chicago, and the importation is always exclusively through Rotterdam.