Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1898 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

In France bicyclists use a whistle Instead of a bell. Dried apricots are now sent from California to London. The word squirrel Is from two Greek words which mean shadow-tall. The first life boat station In Great Britain was established in the year 1824. Truffles will soon be cultivated on scientific principles and are likely to become cheaper. It takes eight times the strength to go upstairs that is required to accomplish the same distance on a level. In the People’s Palace, in London, there is an Italian castle and battleship carved from a lump of. common rock salt. Among the Anglo-Saxons In the seventh century men wore gloves, while women covered their hands with their sleeves. The Japanese foot has been praised for its strength and beauty. Japanese can walk incredible distances without feeling weary. A German has invented an automatic lighter for incandescent gas lamps* in which the gas impinges upon a pellet containing platinum black, whereupon the plantinum wire becomes Incandescent and ignites the burner. Plants and shrubs can be transplanted without disturbing the roots or earth around them by a new implement consisting of a pair of curved blades, which form a short tube with a cone-shaped end, the blades being swung open and pressed into the earth around the plant and closed up below it so the whole can be lifted out together.