Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — VACTS IN FEW WORDS. [ARTICLE]

VACTS IN FEW WORDS.

Windsor Castle has been used for • royal residence 784 years The golden rod bio ms earlier in the reason the further north it is. A HOUSE well built of first-class brick will o.iilast one eonstr.cted of granite Owing to the altitude, it is almost Impossible to b. 11 potatoes in the City of Mexico.

There are between 3'30 and 400 ed;> sated female pharmacists in the United States. Darwin asserted that there is Insanity among animals just a there Is Uiaong people Some of the largest ocean steamers can bo eon er ed into armed cruis«rs in thirty hour*. Anaio.,.s say that b.tter is the juost nutr tious article of diet and that bacon oome< next. A HORSE belonging to the New Hazen Conn, poll' e department enjoys nothing so much at chewing tobacco.

Tin Zuyder Zee is to be drained at .tn expense of 810<>,i 00,.W, 72,782 aore* of ground valued at $130,i 00,0(0 being reclaimed The tallest man of whom there is authenticated measurement was Funoam, of .“-cotland, who was eleven feet and six inches in height The statistics of life insurance people show that in the lust twenty-five years the averag of man s life has liv sreaaed from 41. u to 4'k •> yours To prevent lamp chimneys from tracking put them Into a kettle of coll water, gradually heat It till It bolls, sad then let it as gradually cool Ilf a ton of Dead .Sea water there is 187 pounds of salt Red t ea, 93; Mediterranean, 80; Atlantic, 81: English iTiannel, 72; Baltic, 18; Hlaok Sea, 26; snd Caspian, 11 confinement is calculated 'h’otpre state, to prodi ce melancholia' *uoulul mania and loss of reason. ..me months of absolutely solitary confinement is almost certain to resvM m the mental ruin of the convict.