Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — Things Worth Knowing. [ARTICLE]

Things Worth Knowing.

In Roumania women both study and practice medicine. Brooklyn lias 11,884 more pupils in her schools than a year ago. The Czar of Russia, it is said, is privately practicing on a bicycle. California produced gold to the value of $13,923,281 during the last year. In Great Britain the yearly loss in wages through ill-health is. £11,000,000. Most of the land in the Republic of Mexico is held In almost feudal tenure by about 7.000 families. A century ago there was not a mile of telegraph or telephone wire in existence, not a foot of railway, not a steamship. * Mrs. James G. Blaine and her daugh-ter-in-law, Mrs. Emmons Blaine, have tone to Bar Harbor, where, as usual, ihey will spend the slimmer season. EdUon as a boy began the chemical ual electrical experiments which have nade his name famous. The Governor of Arizona says that Territory produced the last year $lO,)00,000 in gold, against $4,000,000 In 1894. One of the features of the Australian aewspapers is the long line of English idvertisements inquiring for missing friends. Cayenne convicts are escaping in bands of 10, 15 and 20. Though many. »re recaptured or perish, some get back to France.