Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

A gallon of water holds 231 solid inches.

A struck bushel contains about 1% solid feet.

A horse’s respiration Is performed entirely through its nostrils. Fifty pacers and nineteen trotters joined the 2:10 class In 1897.

Don’t think because riches have •lings that they’re bound to fly your way.

Candles of an extra-special make are the favorite illuminant of Queen Victoria.

In Japan coins are generally of Iron* and In Slam they are chiefly of porcelain.

Don’t believe that the kick of a cow Is the most acceptable form of milk, punch.

Mexican tailors bring the new clothea of their patrons to their offices or homes to be fitted.

Emperor William of Germany has taken up lawn tennis for exercise and discarded mechanical rowing.

The trumpet upon which Trumpet Major Joy of the Seventeenth Lancers sounded the order for the charge of the light brigade at Balaklnva, with Joy’s four medals, was sold at auction in London recently for 750 guineas. Miss Charlotte Yonge, the writer, is 75 years of age and bus written more than eighty books. Her admirers, beaded by the Princess of Wal«Care collecting money to endow three free scholarships to be known by her name. The* will b$ for girls. ; _ —. — u