Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — MISSING LINKS. [ARTICLE]

MISSING LINKS.

There are thirteen miles of bookshelves In the British Museum, London. The Salvation Army War Cry has a circulation of 52,000,000 copies, print»d In forty languages. “Raffle for a dimon pin” is the top ■ fine on a sign back of the bar attached ! Io a popular New York case. The Boston Museum of Art has re-1 i reived a legacy of $50,000 for the purI ghase of modern American paintings, I It to said that subcutaneous Injections of salt have been found useful I tn the treatment of some forms of in- : Mnlty. I According to toe city directory just Issued Baltimore has a population of 87,794, an Increase during the year Hf 27,917. Ammonia is extracted from the Thames mud, and the residuum after toe operation is mixed with iron ore and made into brown paper. Dews are less abundant on islands and on ships in midocean. Seamen nearing land can tell that fact by rea» son of the deposits of dew on the vessel. I The loan bureau started last year by St Bartholomew Church, New York, has since May loaned $40,000, and In do Instance has had to forolose a mortgage. Employes of the Union Pacific Railroad have resolved to dispense with the walking delegate, and will hereafter conduct their negotiations and business With the company directly. The taxes qp a piece of property owned by a lady In Columbus, Mo., are considered so high that she has brought suit against her husband, the county treasurer, to compel him to reduoe them.

The pastors* college, in connection with Spurgeon’s Church, has sent out 921 persons into the ministry; twentythree in the past year. Of this number 100 have died, leaving 787 still actively working. The Osar believes In the higher education of women, and has ordered the reopening of the Woman’s Institute of Medicine at St Petersburg, which was closed by order of the government some years ago. Milton, W. Va., has a military company composed entirely of girls. They are drilling under the tutorship of a captain of the State militia, and pro pose to appear in public when they become proficient Billiard balls of cast steel have been made and used sucessfully at Stockholm. They are hollow and weigh about as much as the ordinary ivory balls. A lathe is used to turn them to perfect smoothness. The Chinese Empire is divided into eighteen grand provinces, representing an average area each of 248,000 square miles. The German Empire contains 211,000 square miles, the French Republic 240,000 and toe British Isles 121,000.