Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1898 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Dyed furs should never be brushed by Inexperienced hands. Mushrooms are native to all temperate countries in short grass. Natural Kamchatka, or sea otters, have been sold for SI,OOO a skin. In Japan coins are generally of Iron, and in Slam they are chiefly of porcelain. A French paper says that only one academician, Jules Lemaltre, rides 8 wheel. “fi. The only windows in Corean houses are pieces of glass about the size of a nickel. More than a third of the French crown jewels have been bought by Americans. Most American growers agree that level culture of potatoes brings the largest crops. Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.—Steele. If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are estimable. —Bruyere. Several Berlin hospital physicians have pronounced pure alcohol the best disinfectant for the hands. Potatoes are native to Peru, and tht Spaniards discovered them. From Spain they passed into Italy and Belgium. M. Deibler, the French executioner, 'celebrated his seventieth birthday recently by guillotining a murderer at Bastia. A Southern husking bee. with slaves, slave drivers and ::'l. is to be one of the exhibits of tlx r's exposition ia 1800.