Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FOREIGN NOTEa The people of London are computed to spend $6,000,000 daily. Great Britain has 294 torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers. The flower trade of London exceeds in value $10,000,000 per annum. The population of Russia Is increasing at the rate of over 1,000,00 a year. England carries about 58 per cent of the sea-borne merchandise of the world, Recently an effort has been made at Tangier to establish a chair for teaching surgery to the Moors. A Japanese bride gives her wedding presents to her parents as some slight 1 recompense for their trouble in rearing her. The outside walls of many of the houses in Mexico are from three to six feet thick, to withstand earthquake shocks. The population of London includes 60,000 Germans, 80,000 French, 15,000 Dutch, 12,000 Poles, 7,500 Italians and 5,000 Swiss. The best houses in the city of Manila are of stone and are handsome’residences. Glass Is not used for the windows, which are glazed with translucent oyster shells. The work on the Swiss Jungfrau railway is proving less expensive than had been estimated, and it is expected that in five years the summit of the mountain will be reached. The largest tin factory in the world Is situated on Sulo Brani, an Island in the Bay of Singapore. It turns out moii; lily 1,200 tons of tin, more than tbe product of Cornwall and more than that of Australia. The ore comes from Selangor and Perak, In Malacca.