Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

A vein of lime rock ninety feet wide has been opened in Maine. The owners of the quarry are assured that it Is of the best quality. At Boscoreale, among the remains of the Roman villa now being excavated has been discovered an inscription referring to the worship of the Eriperor Augustus. Business men in Toronto are trying to devise a scheme to make the annual exposition in that city permanent. They think Canadian industries have reached a point which warrants such a step. It is said that a hypnotist in Utah lias begun a series of experiments in the territorial reform school at Ogden looking to the cure of kleptomania and kindred mental conditions of children by hypnotism. He claims that the suggestions given in the hypnotic state will overcome criminal tendencies. It is not generally known that associations of German soldiers who served under Napoleon I. have been celebrating the victories of the grande armee at humble little banquets in Mayence ever since 1816. The German authorities never interfered with the veterans, but in France, under the monarchy, kindred associations were outlawed and their members persecuted as conspirators.

A 10-centime piece, about 2 cents, was found by a porter at a railway station in the north of France. The man carried the coin to the station master, who thereupon registered and forwarded it, with a report, to the office for lost articles, which then communicated with the police commissary at Paris. This functionary sent the parcel on with a fresh report to the prefecture of police, by which it was also registered, and there the 10-centlme piece will remain a year and a day awaiting a claimant.

In southeast Louisiana, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, a syndicate of Northern men has purchased a large body of land and will engage in farming on a large scale. The land was under water, but has been reclaimed by scientific draining. It will be put in rice and sugar. The land is 100 miles north and south, and twenty-five miles east and west. It contains 1,500,000 acres. The fencing cost $50,000. The plowing is done with steam plows. Thirty acres are plowed in a day with ‘.lie labor of only three men. Horses are only used by the cowboys who herd the 16,000 cattle on the place. There are many places in Philadelphia occupied by business firms which furnish a standing puzzle to the community. Take, for instance, an impos-ing-looking haberdashery on Chestnut street. At all times the window is filled with neat neckties and the finest kind of hosiery and linen. Yet no one, as far as the general community is concerned, ever saw a customer enter the store and make a purchase. The store is Itself a fine property and is well located. The same firm has been there for years, and how expenses arc met is the puzzle. Ascertain restaurant in the heart of the city hgs an apart ment set aside for ladles exclusively. The room is quite large and richly car peted. The furniture is of the best, and the linen and crystal-ware are of the finest. A colored waiter stands with towel across his arm at the end of the room, but no man, so far as can be ascertained, ever saw a customer of either sex eating there. It has been conducted in the same manner for years.