Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

Jacksonville, Fla., is to have a baby show for colored infants. The most extensive cemetery in the world is that at Rome, in which over 0,000,000 human beings have been interred. The British isles comprise 1,000 separate islands and islets, without counting mere jutting roeks or isolated pinnacles. According to the deductions of a well-known astronomer, we receive as much light from the sun as could be emitted by 080,000 full moons. Out of sixty arbitration treaties among the nations of the world since 1815, the United States has borne a part in thirty-two—far more than any other nation. Insects are for their size the strongest members of the animal creation. Many beetles can lift a weight equal to more than 500 times the weight of their own bodies. It was the belief of Livingstone that nearly all lions were ‘’left-handed.” He watched them closely, and when they desired to strike a fierce blow they always used the left paw. A large association of merchants, witli headquarters in New York City, has been formed for the purpose of putting a stop, if possible, to the practice of American tourists in bringing into this country jewelry and clothing bought abroad and upon which no duty is paid. Mrs. N. Lehman and daughter, of Jacksonville, Fla., driving in a buggy, With a single horse, started to cross the F. C. & P. Railroad tracks, when an engine under high speed tore the horse from the wagon and killed it, leaving the women seated in the buggy uninjured. A London court lias recently done something to settle the social status or artists’ models. A young woman" brought suit for breach of promise against a man who had promised to marry her, but had been alarmed’ by the discovery that instead of sitting for the head alone she had also sat for the figure, though not without drapery. The decision of the court was that the profession is respectable, and that she was entitled to damages. It lias recently been discovered that there is in Birmingham, in the very center of Christian England, a factory where idols are made for heathen nations! Idols of all kinds are turned out, representing the gods of all heathen nations from Tokio to Timbuctoo. The export trade to heathen countries is a fairly large one, although more goods are sent out to foreign dealers in curios in the bazars of Cairo, Damascus, Colombo, etc., for sale to unsuspecting travelers anxious to take home mementos. The Pope has Issued an order forbidding priests not belonging to the Roman diocese or not having any regular employment in Rome to dwell there. All priests who continue to stay in Rome in contravention of this rescript will be suspended. A note is also being taken of the resident priests who are seen out of doors after a certain hour, and measures will be taken against them in case they can plead no justification. There is an hour fixed In the evening by the ringing of the church bells vyhen all members of the clergy must be indoors.