Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1898 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Soap was first manufactured in Britain in 1524. A traveler can now go around the world in fifty days. It requires half & day to sing the national hymn of China. A fine ostrich is calculated to yield $2,000 worth of feathers. The game of chess is taught in all the Australian public schools. New Zealand contains at present 42,000 natives (Maoris) and 620,000 whites. France and Germany are endeavoring to acclimatize the American lobster, as hardier and healthier .ban his European congener. The number of converts to Christianity in China uas been greater within the last eight years than during the preceding thirty years. British trade ethics are about to apply to tbe Klondike. Liverpool has sent out on the steamer Mannense, bound for St. Michael, the largest cargo of liquor ever shipped. It Includes 14,000 cases and 1,000 barrels of spirits, chiefs ly whisky, and 3,000 barrels of beer. Irish & English is the name of a hardware 'firm doing business in Buffalo. The concern lias been in existence since 1857. Tbe Pope does his private writing with a gold pen, but bis pontifical slg-' nature is always given with a whitefeathered quill, which is believed to come from tbe wing of a dove, although persons who have seen it say it must have come from a larger bird. The same quill has been in use for more than forty years. It serves only for important signatures, and is kept in an Ivory case.