Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — All [?]orts. [ARTICLE]

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A teacup bolds one gill. Tbe bogs of Ireland cover 2,800,000 acres. The Plain of Sharon is about twenty miles wide. A Chicago justice has fined a man $25 for being a liar. A New Jersey man has voted 143 times n seventy years, and is proud of his record. American birds have decreased in number nearly 50 per cent, in the last fifteen years. Bears have been more plentiful la Hungary lately than at any time within the past fifteen years. Secretary Hay has promised to attend the ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the corner-stone of Chicago's new postoffice. The residents of Alva, Oklahoma, have decided to change the name of that town to Capron, in honor of the Bough Rider captain killed at Santiago. Some of the colored people in Alabama try to cure themselves of rheumatism by sleeping with a young dog. They Imagine that the disease Is thus transmitted to the dog. A French doctor has Invented an electric helmet, inside of which Is a small motor that vibrates strips of steel, the motor making 600 turns per minute. This whizzing Is supposed to cure nervous headache, and put the sufferer to sleep. In Cyprus the first articles of gold of andlent workmanship discovered on the island has just been found. It is a plate of gold three inches long by one and a half inches broad, and on It an the figures of a sphinx and two beardless warriors. Here are some preventives used in va rious parts of the world: A dried snakeskin is good against snake bites, a piece of a human skull against epilepsy, a wolfs tooth against hydrophobia, an alabaster bead against tempest and hall, a sapphire against blindness, a snail shell against gravel or fever, a bronze Byzantine coin against warts, a pig’s tooth against trouble In teethhig, and a horse chestnut against the rheumatism.