Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

More mountain effmbers have been terlously hurt In the Alps this season than ever before tn an equal length of time. A South Carolina widow became her own mother-in-law recently. That la to aay, she Is now the wife of her hueband’s father. A dude in Philadelphia was turned out of the club to which he belonged because he paid his tailor’s bMI two days after he got the clothes. A West Virginia man Is so peculiarly affected by riding on a train that he has to chain himself to a seat to prevent his Jumping out of the car window. Fruit cools the blood, cleans the teeth and aids digestion. Those who can’t eat It miss thebeueflt of perhaps the most medicinal food on nature’s bill of fare. A Minnesota girl of 15 can distinguish no color, everything being white to her, and she is compelled to wear dark glasses to protect her eye* from the glare. A Swiss scientist has been testing the presence of bacteria In the mountain air, and finds that not a single microbe exists above an altitude of 2,000 feet Wheat can be grown In the Alps at an elevation of 8,000 feet; In Brazil, at 5,000: In the Caucasus, at 8,000; in Abyssinia, at 10,000; in Peru and Bolivia, at 11,000. A Minnesota judge waa due In court at a town some miles distant. He adjourned a referred case to the cor, heard evidence en route and granted the petition before getting off the train. While there are no complete statistics available, careful estimates from all possible sources of Information make it probable that, at the time of the discovery, there were no more than 600,000 Indians in all North America.