Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1906 — GERMAN GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

GERMAN GLEANINGS.

Berlin Ims twenty-nine suburbs. German women collect what are supposed to bo the smallest potted plants in the world. They are cacti growing In pots about the size of a thimble. The new Virchow hospital In Berlin will have 800 beds. The total cost of construction will reach $5,000,000. Tlie attending physicians will have salaries from about *1.400 to *BOO a year. Firing a revolver as a salute to a wedding party, In accordance with an old Bavarian custom, a schoolmaster at Wurembury used ball cartridges by mistake and killed one of the bridesmaids. A German Ann has patented a new pen made from a metal called tantalite. So enduring Is tantalite that a.dlamond drill working at 5,000 revolutions per minute was used upen a sheet of the metal for seventy-two hours continuously without making an Indentation.