Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

Diamonds are worth $30,000,000 a ton. It is estimated that more than half the people in the world dwell in Asia. • It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other. What was probably the first public library in the United States was started in Charleston, S. C., in 1749. Hard times in Germany are said to have caused a large diminution in the consumption of wine and spirituous liquors. The bamboo bolds the record among plants for quick growth. It has been known to grow two feet in twenty-four hours. The rotation of a waterspout at the surface of the sea has been estimated at 354 miles an hour, or nearly six mi lea a minute. The great bulk of chalk is composed of eight different species of tiny sheila, but nearly three hundred kinds have been found in ft. The Columbia, which sailed from Boston in September, 1787, was the first ship that carried the stars and stripes completely around the world. Of ninety-three Emperors who have governed the whole or a large part of the Roman empire, sixty-two were murdered or died under suspicious circumstances. Henri Houriet, a Swiss watchmaker, has recently completed a watch made entirely out of ivory taken from a billiard ball—works and case complete. It keeps good time. Several important railways are being built in China. Notwithstanding their theoretical objections to railways, the Chinese make much use of them when built, and trade is at Six thousand is the record ’ number of roses produced by one tree at a time. This was in Holland.on Mme. Regnew's land. A Marechai Kiel nt Whitby. England, has had 3,500 blossoms on it at the same time. Woman's rights prevail in Abyssinia. There the wife Is boss of the shanty. The house, with all its contents, belongs to her, and if the husband offends her she turns him out until he is fully repentant and makes amends. The Paris Academic des Sciences is examining a theory to the effect that the key to human stature lies hi the gland situated In the throat under the larynx. By artificially stimulating this gland it is claimed that any child can be made to grow to maximum height.