Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — FOR EVERY TASTE. [ARTICLE]

FOR EVERY TASTE.

Glasgow lias a population of nearly 1,000,C00, and has only 494 doctors. It is expected in Tokio that Japan’s budget next year will show a deficit of 25,000,000 silver dollars. In St. Louis there is enough vacant and unused land to make a strip 125 feet wide and nearly 900 miles long. The number of young fishes transferred last year from the hatcheries to thewatersof Wisconsin was 77,000,000. A telegraph and telephone line between Chicago and Milwaukee is owned by tiie (citrons, who pay 5 cents for each message. Many English accident insurance companies charge an extra premium when their policy holders travel in Canada or the United States. Denmark has labor unions comprising 88,000 members. The Swedish unions have a membership of 7,000, the Norwegians of 12,000 laboring men. The King of Korea has sent thirty young men to Russia to learn the languages of that country. On their return they are to be employed as officials. Pitcairn Island now contains 120 inhabitants, the descendants of -the wellknown English mutineers and Tahitian women. Only forty of the Inhabitants are men.