Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

It’s a iong lane that has no turning, but it may turn in the wrong direction. Stains on linen can be removed by rubbing them persistently with salt and lemon juice. Mr. Goschen, the secretary of war, has followed Mr. Balfour's example and taken to the bicycle. Mr. Swinburne has in the press a larger and more important poem than any he has published for some years. Mr. Balfour is an intensely indolent man. He so arranges his work tiiat he can lie abed until noon at least live days out of the seven. Ah aerolite which recently fell In Australia Had a spot in one side nearly twelve inches in diameter 'which was composed of pure copper. What time Dr. Jameson does not spend at Bow street, he appears to be occupied in refusing proposals of marriage which reach him-by mail. The first counterfeit •greenback (series of 1802) was .made at Lawrence, Ind., by Eet£ tl.» criminally Johnseu Withers. Paderewski has commissioned the brothers De Iteszke to buy him a Polish estate on the line’between Cracow and Warsaw, and here the great pianist proposes to build a chateau. Of every 1.'006 clergymen between the ages of 45 and 65 only 15.93 die an nually; but of every 1,000 doctors between the ages of 45 and 65, no fewer i than 28.03, it is said, die every year, i Slate pencils are now manufactured lof bone. They are not likely, however. to meet with approval of the small boy, as they- are uhbfeakable, and. still worse,'- noiseless. The peculiar and delightfully shrill, musical screech of the old-fashloiied Slate pencil is naturally a great'sßliree of amusement to the young. Tiie Cuban rebels have adopted a novel way of setting fire to sugar cane fields. A small piece of phosphorus coated with wax is fastened to a snake's tail and the creature let loose to make its way among the cane. The sun melts the wax and ignites tiie phosphorus and the business is done. Military protection or other efforts are claimed to be unavailing in the face of such a formidable' foe.