Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

Dutch omnibuses are fitted with letter boxes. Of 51,000 breweries in the world, 25,000 are in Germany. The first large iron bridge in the world was built over the Severn in 1777. Scientists assert that the fly can make (ISO strokes a second with its wings. Moscow’s orphan asylum, founded by Catherine 11., Is supported by a tax on playing cards. The Visitor states that the new Catholic cathedral in London will be completed by the year 1900. IvoUsters have a great dread of thunder, and when peals are very loud will swim to deeper water. Meteors rush through space at the rate of twenty-six miles a second. They arp not usually larger than a pebble, and on striking tile earth's atmosphere they immediately dissolve into' gas. The British museum contains the oldest specimen of pure glass which bears any date. This is a little lion’s head, having oa it the name of an Egyptian king of the eleventh dynasty. The quiver of the aspen leaves is due to the fact of the leaf stalk being flat on the sides and so thin about the middle that the slightest breath of wind sets all the leaves wagging horizontally.

Flogging has become so indispensable In Russia that some inventor has perfected a machine which saves the human arm. Under the flagellation of the machine taxes and arrears are to become speedily collected. Cranberries are not injured by freezing. They are often sent as far as Manitoba in open box ears. When they arrive they are frozen into solid blocks of ice. The sides of the cases are knocked off and the berries are exposed *!n a solid mass, like cakes of Ice. Hartland, in Devonshire, has had only three vicars since 1700. The present vicar has held the place since 1859, his predecessor held it for sixty-two years, having served as curate for ten years before, and succeeding an incumbent who served thirty-seven years.

No sovereign of the United Kingdom was every crowned in Ireland; but double coronations of English monarchs have not been infrequent. Henry VII. was cro-wned at Westminster, and again at Worcester; Henry 111. at Gloucester an& Westminster, and Henry VI. at Paris and Westminster.