Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

There are forty varieties of the tobacco plant. A Chinaman eats twice as much meat as a Japanese. Bootblacks are seldom seen on the streets of Berlin. In the whole of Greece there are only 152 newspapers. A Kaffir’s religion consists mostly in singing and dancing. In India there is a fly which attheks and devours large spiders. Silver money 250 years old is still in circulation in some parts of Spain. A map of Jerusalem in mosaic, over 1,500 yeans old, has been found In Palestine. The River Jordan makes the greatest descent in the shortest distance of almost any stream. Massachusetts contemplates the expenditure of $2,000 for the illumination of the dome of the State house. The average duration of human life in European countries is greatest in Sweden and Norway and lowest in Italy and Austria. Admission to Holyrood palace and chapel will hereafter be free, the British government having decided to discontinue the taking of fees. Italy has followed New York’s lead in fighting the spitting habit. Notices In many streets and railroad cars request passengers to abstain on the grounds of decency and health. Mr. Lea of Worcestershire sauce fame, left an estate of $3,350,000; his partner, Perrin, left nearly as much. They began life as druggists in a small way in an English country town. Munster, in Westphalia, has a public school which has just celebrated the I,looth anniversary of its foundation. It is the St. Paul gymnasium, and was originally a convent school. One French citizen is doing his best to save his country from depopulation. A new recruit in Paris startled the enrollment board by announcing that he was the thirty-fourth child of his father.