Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

The finest lemon orchards in the world are: those in Sicily, where an acre of lemoiis is worth £3OO. Queen Victoria's traveling expenses in connection with her trip to the Riviera amounted to about $-5,000. The juice of a pineapple cuts the membrane from the throat of a diphtheria patient when nothing else will. In the last nine months 17,000.000 bushels of corn were shipped from New York, while 15,000,000 bushels were exported through New Orleans. The British isles comprise no fewer than 100 separate Islands and islets, without counting more jutting rocks or isolated pinnacles. It has been discovered by two French scientists that most precious stones, such as the ruby, the sapphire, and the emerald, can readily be told from their imitations by means of the Itoeutgen rays..

Tomatoes are best eaten raw with salt. They should be ripe, but not over-much so, and they are best eaten before breakfast. The tomato should he a favorite fruit with those who suffer from constipation. A statue of President Kruger will soon be erected in Pretoria. It will be forty feet high, and will represent the Boer statesman in the quaint garb, tall hat included, which he affects on Sundays and special occasions. Eggs are being peddled around Tucson, Ariz., at 20 cents per dozen. For a short time last summer they reached thesame figure. That is the lowest price ever known iu Tucson. In days gone by they were considered cheap at 75 cents and $1 per dozen. Thomas Fitzmorris, a farmer living at White River Junction, Yt„ was lined $34 for giving away two drinks of hard cider to visitors at liis home, and the sheriff confiscated 200 gallons of cider found in the cellar. This was done under the prohibitory law of the State. M. Jacobs, a prominent merchant of Portsmouth, Ohio, has almost completed a dwelling house built according to his own designs. The amateur architect has just discovered that iu his new $7,300 residence he failed to make any provision for a fireplace, flue or-chim-ney. On land surfaces at sea level the wiud attains its greatest velocity during the heated portion of the day—from 10 a. m. to 2 p. in.—ami then-di-minishes in velocity until the minimum is reached about midnight.' This condition does not preraflf J at an elevation of four tlnV&Sand febt and upward, as has been conclusively shown by direct observations of the velocity of ttie. wind on mountain peaks, and also of cloud motions in the free air. Tlie maximum velocity of the wind at Pike's Peak, Colorado, elevation 14,134 feet, occurs from 2 to 4 a.' m. and the minimum from 11 a. in. to 1 p. m.