Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1898 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

A gallon of water holds 231 solid inches. A struck bushel contains about 1% solid feet. A horse’s respiration is performed entirely through its nostrils. Fifty pacers and nineteen trotters Joined the 2:10 class in 1807. Don’t think because riches have wings that they’re bound to fly your way. The largest sheep ranch in the world is in the counties of Webb and Dimmit in Texas; it contains more than 400,000 acres and pastures 800,000 sheep annually. In 1897 the millionaires of the United States gave more than $32,000,000 to various benevolent and charitable institutions, no gift considered here being less than $5,000. A medical authority on the virtues of various kinds of food declares that the herring gives the muscles elasticity, the body strength, and the brain vigor, and is not flesh-forming. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who has been singled out for special honors by the Emperor of Austria, spends his life like any simple burgher. It is said that Napoleon’s sleigh (the one in which be made his retreat from Moscow) was in Chicago until recently, when it was chopped up by a woman because she was tired of looking at It. Anthony Hope is reported as saying that there are three kinds of press interviews—^“when the gentleman never said anything of the kind, when he said something of the kind, and when the Interview never occurred.”