Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — MISSING LINKS [ARTICLE]

MISSING LINKS

There are thirteen miles of bookshelves In the British Museum, lamdon. The Salvation Army War Cry has a circulation of 52,000,000 copies, printed in forty languages. “RafHe for a ditoon pin” Is the top line on a sfgn back of the bar attached j to a popular New York case. The Boston Museum of Art has received a legacy of $50,000 for the purchase of modern American paintings. It la said that subcutaneous Injections of salt haTe bean found useful In the treatment of some forms of Insanity. According to the city directory just issued Baltimore has a population of 617,794, an Increase during the year of 27,91 T, Ammonia le extracted from tho Thames mud, and the residuum after the operation le mixed with Iron ore and made Into browti paper. Dewe are lews abundant on islands and on ship* In midocean. Seamen nearing lunfl can tell that fact by reaeon of the depoelts of dew on the Yeseel. The loan bureau started last year by St Bartholomew Church, New York, has since May loaned $40,000, and In no Instance has had to forclose a mortgage. Employes of the Union Facifio Railroad have resolved to dispense vrtth the walking delegate, and will hereafter conduct their negotiations and business with the company directly. The taxes on a piece of property owned by a lady In Columbus, Mo., are considered so high that she has brought suit against her husband, the county treasurer, to compel hlvn to reduoe them. The pastors’ college, In connection with Spurgeon’s Church, has sent out 921 persons Into the ministry; twentythree In the pa£t year. Of this number 100 have died, leaving 787 still actively woiklng. The Ozar believes In the higher education of women, and has ordered the reopening of the Woman’s Institute of Medicine at St Petersburg, which was closed by order of the government gome years ago, Milton, W. Va„ has a military company compoaed entirely of girls. They are drilling under the tutorship of a captain of the State militia, and propose to appear In public when they become proficient. Billiard balls of cast steel have been made and used sucessfully at Stockholm. They are hollow and weigh about as much as the ordinary Ivory balls. A lathe Is used to turn them to perfect smoothness. ! The Chinese Empire Is divided into eighteen grand provinces, representing an average area each of 248,000 square miles. The German Empire contains 211,009 square .miles, the French Republic 240,000 and the British Isles 121,000.