Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

1 exuoht, iMuomr, Balance of Trade for Uncle Sam, Largest ever known! If the pending tariff bill gets in its work, the balance of trade will cease to be in our favor.

This evening, of malarial fever John, son of Pater and Capitola Giver, aged 15years and 11 days. The smallest humming-birds weighs 20 grains. A'. J^ ew j ß ’ th® °iß ar man has gone to Athcafor bath treatment. Art Hopkins will conduct the buemes of the factory in his absence. A surpriseparty astonished Wi? bchanlaub. Wednesday evening but everything passed off satisfactorily.

Ihe longest time duringwhicha Bank of England note lias remained uncashed is 111 years. The note in question was for £ls, and it is computed that the compound interest gained by the bank owing o its non- prejeqtatioH amounted to no less than £I,OOO.

. I lie supposed Igrave of Eve is visited by over 40,0c0 pilgrime in each year. It is to be seen at Jeddah, in a cemetery outside the citv walls. The tomb is fifty cubits long and twelve Wide. The Arabs entertain a belief that Eve was the tiilest woman that ever lived. Ihe oak tree which stands in the midd e ot the road leading from heamington to Warwick is said to mark the center of England. How long ago it was planted is not known, except by computation from its girth, which is about twelve fee ,nn Dd Bhows the tree to be 800 or 400 years old.

L °w Hates, «- ■■ IKWIHi IjvP iHi Another Cheap Excursion— To Chicago, Sunday,!Augustßth, To cento for the round trip from Rensselaer. Plenty of coaches and seats for all. W, n. Beam, Agent. One fare for the round trip to Rom? City, Ind., July 19th to August let. Account Island Park Atembly. One fare for the round (rip to o Bethany Park. Indiana, July to Aug. 15rh. Account Bethany Park Assembly. Beam, Agunt Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition May Ist to October 31st, 1897, at Nashville, Tennessee. Fars for the round trip from Rensselaer, only $lO. Tickets on sale daily. W.H.Beam, Agent. Through Sleeper ro Washington and Baltimore. The new Monon thiough sleeper between Chicago and Washington and Baltimore has become so popular that it is often n ■‘ceseary to put on an extra. Requisitions for berths should be made at least a day in advance. It is attached to t r ain No. 31 which leaves Monon at 5;12 a m. and arrives at Wash* ington at 6.47 a. m. and Baltimore 7! 55 the following morning. W. H. Beam, Agent.

Morocco Courier: Uncle Henry Smith, of Rensselaer, was a visitor at Morocco ihursday. Uncle Henry came to Rensselaer at a very early day and is one of the best known men in Jasper county. He was a noted fiferlin his day, and thirty years ago no Fourth of July celebration was considered complete without Uncle Henry and his fife. He also taught d number of successful terms of school during his early residence in Jasper county and he takes great pride even now in pointing out certain successful business men in and about Rensselaer wno learned “readin’, writin’ and ’rithmetic” under his watchful care. Hncle Henry is chock full of anecdotes relative to the history of this country and loves to talk of the days when, as he says, the people could take a pound of butter and a quart of sand and have a rattling good Fourth of July.