Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

An average of 1,000 pigs are eaten In London dally. Hollow glass bricks are now in use In Paris buildings. A pinoh of soda on a hot stove drives away disagreeable odors. The fastest train In France makes 58% miles an hour between Paris and Lille. Seven members of the British parliament hold 186 directorships in stock companies between them. Steam an old fowl before roasting it, and put a few sticks of celery inside the stuffing to flavor it. A cycle cleaning brigade Is proposed for London, the boys to be stationed at street corners, like the bootblacks. Cancer can be relieved and probably cured by local applications of calcium carbide, according to Dr. Guinard, of Pails. The annual increase of the German nation during the last five years has been more than five times as much as that of the French. Sir Henry Hawkins, Hon. Mrs. Henniker and a number of other prominent persons are thinking of building in London an animal’s hospital. Verestchagin, the painter, has. devised a revolving glass studio, which he turn* with a windlass, thus preserving light in the same direction all day long. A slice of common onion rubbed oh the spot is a certaip cure for a wasp sting. If the sting be in the throat or mouth an onion should be slowly chewed and swallowed. A pitcher of ice water laid in a newspaper, with the ends of the paper twisted together to exclude the air, will remain all night in any summer room with scarcely any perceptible melting yf the Ice.