Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

An authority on cats says that blueeyed cats are always deaf, and that puie white ones are often afflicted in the same manner. Some geographers have been surprised by.the recent census of Egypt. The population of 9,000,000 reported exceeds that under the greatest of the Pharaohs. The pension bureau has received a conscience contribution of $350 from a pensioner in Pennsylvania, who states that he obtained the money fraudulently. The Freneh proprietor of a high-class suburban hotel which Jias the advantage of old tree shading advert!serf his hostelry as “the best shady hotel around New York City.” The New York superintendent of Insurance has been* appealed to to give his opinion upon the legality of establishing an insurance company to insure against twins or triplets. It is gravely asserted that when it \fas informed that the sailing date of a popular ocean steamer from Boston was set for Friday many persons who had wished to go to Europe in her refused to book passage for that particular trip and the date was changed to Saturday. A company of men and some officers of the British ship Intrepid were taken from Vera Cruz to the CSty of Mexico by the English colony of the capital city at an expense of $3,000 and gave concerts there which captured the town. The men were well entertained and as well pleased as the citizens. India Is the only country that makes death by the attack of serpents and wild beasts a feature of its annual statistics. That it has good cause for doing so is shown in the Impressive figures of last year’s mortality—l,l33 deaths from snake bites and 291 people killed by tigers and other wild animals. Free argon and helium have now been found in the sulphurous waters of springs in the Pyrenees at La Raillere and Bols. The gases were Introduced by M. Bouchard into a Plucker tube containing magnesium wire, and when subjected to the silent discharge of electricity combined with the magne-. slum. He says that they combine with platinum in the same way. Horseflesh continues to hold its own as an article of food with the poorer classes in Belgium. Recent statistics show that in Antwerp alone nearly 4,000 horses were slaughtered last year for human consumption, and the number of shops dealing exclusively in horseflesh in the Belgium port exceeds twenty. Over 100,000 horses were Imported during the year for conversion into meat, this number being largely In excess of the Imports of cattle. An effort has been made at Princeton to change slightly the college colors, which are ’now orange and black, the orange being the color with black as a relief. Those who adopted it believed the orange and black to be the colors of the house of Nassau, to which belonged the Protestant prince of Orange, but the colors of that house are really orange and blue. It Is not likely that the eolors will be or can be changed, though adopted through error.