Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1904 — ENGLISH ETCHINGS. [ARTICLE]

ENGLISH ETCHINGS.

The annual returns of the British registrar general show a steady Increase of mortality from anaesthesia since 1803. An official connected with the London zoo has been convicted of selling to a sausage maker horse meat that was condemned ns not being good enough for the animals under his care. The present custom in England of brides carrying prayer books Instead of iKJuqunts hus caused a boom In the prayer book trade. The bindings have to be white—morocco, calf, Ivory, silver or mother of pearl. The climate and soil of Ireland having been declnred suitable for sugar beets, 3,000 acres near Cork are to be planted with these tubers, and it Is expected that ere long the United King dom will be able to grow all its sugar. Lord Kitchener’s task in India Is to make India a military power as independent as possible of “home” resources. Arms and ammunition factories, stud farms, military colleges and an Indian volunteer force are parts of the plan.