Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

According to the latest figures, China owes her creditors $193,525,000. Gen. W. B. Taliaferro, who was commander of the Virginia troops during John Brown’s raid, is dead. Four hundred patients have died of starvation in one Havana hospital during the past two months. A 7-foot granite monument in the Upper Hartz, Germany, has an iron tablet inscribed: “Here in the year 1847 the first trials were made with the cultivation of the potato.” A Paris newspaper expresses a hope that “a European statesman will be found to intervene, with a view of the maintenance of peace between the United States and Spain.” The navies of the world are now rated as follows: Great Britain, 1; France, 2; Russia, 3; Italy, 4; United States, 5; Germany, G; Spain, 7: Japan, 8; Austria, 9, and Netherlands, 10. The smokestack of the Government assay office in Wall street, New York, has lately been cleaned, and the sweepings smelted and refined, yielding 52 standard ounces of gold and BGO ounces of silver. A sale of American prize horses took place in London. Twenty-two magnifi, cent animals, which took prizes at recent horse shows in Chicago and New York, were sold at auction at an average price of about $294, a striking illustration of foreign prejudice against American products. Another phase of the cigarette smoking evil is attracting the attention of Cincinnati physicians in the case of Joseph Savage, 19 years old, in one es the city hospitals. Through smoking forty cigarettes a day he contracted nn ulcer which destroyed the membrane behind the palate in his throat, and he now exhales smoke from his ears as well as from his nostrils.