Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

A man In Liberty, Me,, has whiskers eight feet In length. Thales, born (540 B. C. In Greece, was tlic first to predict an ealipse. Soldiers In the Italian army are allowed cigars as part of their daily rations. It is said that for the pieces of armor in the Spitzer collection—the most wonderful armor In the world—Herr Spitzer had frequently refused $1,250,000. The way In which live American towns recover from a great calamity was shown In the rapid restoration of Chicago after the fire of 1871, and again In the case of Johnstown, wiped out almost completely by floods. In 1887 the borough bad a population of 9,592; now It la a city of 30,000 inhabitants, and taking in the immediately surrounding territory the population of what is really the new Johnstown numbers about 35,000. The mother of Tesla, the famous electrician, found her lot cast In a very wild country, far from any of the conveniences of civilization. She had, however, inherited an inventive spirit from her father, an inventor and constructor of machinery, and she resolutely mpde good the deficiencies in her home by constructing nearly all the articles needed In the household, and without objects from which to copy. She planted hemp, and flax, took out the fiber, spun the thread and then made her own loom preparatory to weaving. This cloth produced by her varied from the heaviest grades suitable for winter clothing to fine pieces suitable for embroidery.