Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — A Childlike Fair. [ARTICLE]

A Childlike Fair.

- The Grand Duke and Dncbeoe of flasse enjoy playing the role of sovereign more than any European prince or tetteess. Those who live about the court ad Barmstadt speak of tbstr efforts In the right direction, owing to their extreme youthfulness, as touching to behold! The Grand Duke has lately become a director of the Darmstadt Opera House, a very serious director Indeed- When the affairs of state are nod pressing too heavily upon them, the fVhng couple spend their time playing ftenls, dancing, and, be It whispered, tea enamored of the simple delights of playing “Consequences” and “Hows Jjtyfr? and Plte

A tatttesnak* wMeh fiat been *» e* Wbition at Peak's Island, Me., tbs past four months, has eaten nothing In that r .’ ___ An Arkansas hunter has a hound that Will catch his tall in Ms teeth and fpft down a hill footer than any hound in the pack can run. Efijon, France, has a poplar tree with • record that can be traced to 722 A. D. It is 122 feet high and 48 feet In circumference at the base. It is said that at this time there are twenty-two ex-sovereigns residing in different parte of Europe, none of them In the countries they once ruled. In the human subject, the brain is one twenty-eighth part of the whole body’s entire weight In the horse It is not more than one four-hundredth part There are at present two Chinese girls studying medicine at the University of Michigan. They will return to China as Christian medical missionaries. A beam of light shoots through space with the prodigious velocity of 194,000 miles a second, occupying eight minutes in making Its trip from the sun to the earth. Alexander the Great was born on the 6th day of April and died on the 6th of April. He won all his victories on that day, which was also the successful day of his father, Philip. 1 The Gaekwar of Baroda, India, owns ! a Curved sword which Is by far the most valuable in the world. Its hilt and scabbard are encrusted with diamonds, rubles and emeralds of the rarest kind, its value being 220,000 francs.