Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1897 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

The army worm has cost America more than the Revolutionary war. Over 600,000 cattle are slaughtered yearly for the manufacture of beef extracts. The descendants of a single female wasp will often number 25,000 in one season. Fleas will never touch an epileptic, and will instantly leave a dead or dying person. A bumble bee has been known to distance a locomotive going twenty miles an hour. Female spiders are much larger and more ferocious than the males, and often devour their husbands. Two Bit is a novel name of the youngest town in the Black Hills. It is located in the gulch of that name in the northern hills near a mine which yields red paint. Nearly seventy round towers, from thirty to 135 feet high, are found in various parts of Ireland. They are believed to have been used in the ceremonies of fire worship. The State capitol of Texas is the largest State building in the United States, and the seventh in size among the buildings of the world. It was paid for with three million acres of public land, deeded to the Chicago capitalists who executed the work. The grand triumphal arch in Paris, begun by Napoleon, is 147 feet by sev-enty-five feet at its base, and 162 feet high. The central archway is ninetyfive feet high and forty-eight feet wide. The inner walls are inscribed with the names of 384 generals and ninety-six victories,