Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

The zircon has been found in California. The opal has been found in New Mexico. Alabaster exists in seventeen different States. The Venus’ hair stone Is found in New Mexico. Serpentine exists in New England and Virginia. In 1890 the United States produced 161,754 short tons of lead. Our deposits of borax are believed to be practically inexhaustible. The heliotrope has been discovered in New Mexico and Georgia. The United State* has 115 medical schools, regular, eclectic and homeopathic. A great number of New Hampshire trout have been stocked In several California streams with good results. Lead colic has been treated most successfully in Paris by administering large doses of olive oil. In chronic cases sixty grammes of oil a day were given with excellent results. Teachers in Baden and other parts of Germany a hundred years ago were so poorly paid that they used to go about singing in front of the houses in the evening to earn a few extra pennies. The total coinage, gold and silver, of the reign of Henry 111. was £3,898; the total coinage of the reign of Victoria up to 1892 was £544,100,000, of which £812,300,000 were of gold and £231,800,000 of silver.

The Sulftm of Turkey nearly always dines alone. Tables, plates, knives and forks are eschewed. He uses only a spoon and his fingers, thus fishing out tkj food from little saucepans placed on the floor. Toronto unions demand of aldermanic candidates that they shall vote for the abolishment of the property qualification for aldermen; union wages on city work and the abolishment of the contract system on city work. Lucinda Bedford, an ex-slave, who died in Nashville, Tenn., at age of 94 years, left a fortune of considerably over SIOO,OOO. Her old master, William Bedford, who died before the war, set her free and left her his fortune of about SIOO,OOO. A Massachusetts thief has been systematically stealing canary birds. The theory is that he carries a ladder, opens second-story windows, as these are usually left unfastened, quietly unhooks the cage and carries off the songster. The police have not yet apprehended him.

At the close of the year 1892 there were in Switzerland 556 electric lights run by waterfall power, 53 plants for electrical transmission of power, 121 accumulator or storage batteries and 1,056 other dynamos and electro-mo-tors. The number of incandescent lamps run by water power was 115,926, and of arc lamps 9,716. Dr. Stuhlmann, who is traveling in Africa, has come upon a tree whose fruit gives out a tallow-like fat. The tree is one of the largest in the forests of Usambara, and the fruit is big and heavy, measuring a foot in length by half a foot in diameter. It is a new species of the guttiferi. The natives call it mkani, but the botanists name it Stearodendron StuMmannl. The Russian authorities have intervened in behalf of the nightingale. The police of Kiew found some bird catchers who were on their way to Moscow with 600 nightingales in cages. The bird catchers were captured and fined and their little victims were taken to the Botanic Gardens and released. It is said they rose in the air iu song, which was responded to by the other birds around.