Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Railways use up over 2,000,0(X) tons of steel n year, utmost half the world's product. Last year the total number of new’ Uooks published in the United States reached (5,358, or 853 more than in any previous year. Efforts made by F. Wnylnnd Brown and I)r. Augirst M. Unger, Chicago, to have quashed the indictments pending against them iu connection with the insurance policies ou Marie Beffcnbach, who died several months ago, have fall-* ed. The perfunctory manner in which witnesses arc sworn in English courts was illustrated recently during a trinl in London, nfter some twenty witnesses had given their evidence. ' It was then discovered that all had sworn on and kissed n copy of “The Guide to the Law of Landlord and Tenant.”

J fhe Good Natan of Genius. Conan tooyle looks a typical squire; he is tall, rather fair, with a heavy figure. He talks very slowly and deliberately, _ but Is far cleverer as a listener than a talker. He is one of the few men who have learned the art of sympathethic listening. In a way he is extremely vague. For Instance, the visitor may notice him putting a letter in one of his pockets and then searching carefully In the other for It. He Is a man' who would be always misplacing things for lack of method. But perhaps the thlpg that strikes you more than anything In Cfenan Doyle is tho great, l)lg heart in the man. .. f