Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

London alone reduces to ashes a million cigars a week. Flying flail have been known to Jump ten feet above the surface of the sea. Large quantities of American coal are called for In the region of Palestine. The native Indian tribes of Alaska number 29,586, a gain of 4,182 In ten years. Manchester, England, has more public houses than any other city in the kingdom. There are 165,000 Britons living In the United Kingdom at present who were born in the colonies. An orange tree in’full bearing has been known to produce 15,000 oranges; a lemon tree 6,000 fruit. Recent Investigations enable New York City to point to her asphalt paving as the costliest on earth. The census of 1900 shows that there are 18,197 negroes to every 100,000 whites, compared with 13,575 In 1890. There are no less than 3,262 different species of fish Inhabiting the waters of America north of the Isthmus of Panama. The total value of the manufacture of brlckß and tiles in the United States In 1900 was $76,336,871, and of pottery $19,708,670. Lieutenant de Clairmont, of the Philippine commission, reports the existence of an odd white race of people In the Island of Mlnoro. An olive tree yields six pounds of olives when It is three years old. At the age of fifty It yields from twentytwo to twenty-six pounds. A mile of wreck-strewn coast la southwestern Norway proves to be filled with magnetic Iron ore, deflecting the compass a whole degree. All the cork used In the world In a year weighs Just over ono thousand tons. It comes from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and North Africa. The dlodon and tbs tetrodon, two allied families of tropical fish, popularly known as globs fish, have tha power to float and swim back downward. Japanese cotton mills have no advantages over American mills, despits the fact that the averago dally wages for men Is 16 cents and women 9H cents. Fireflies are sold nightly by peddlers In the crowded quarters of Tokio and other Japanese cities. The Insects sell for three rln apiece, a rln being equal In value to the twentieth part of a cent In fasting feats the sect of Jains, In India, Is far ahead of all rivals. Fasts of from thirty to forty days are very common, and once a year they are said to abstain from food for seventy-flvs days. The postal laws provide that postoffice boxes shall not be rented to miP ors or persons of unsound minds, and that mall shall not be placed in boxes so rented If tbs parents or guardians object