People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — NEWSY TRIFLES. [ARTICLE]

NEWSY TRIFLES.

The tobacco acreage in Germany this year was 52,393 acres, an increase of 8,836 acres over 1894. / Brazil had 7,540 miles of railroad in operation at the end of 1894 and 4,344 in course of construction. The ten savings banks of San Francisco have assets aggregating $116,000,000. They have $104,000,000 on deposit. A 17-year-old husband was divorced from a 16-year-old wife in San Francisco last week. The husband was a messenger boy. Australian wine to the amoufit of 615,168 gallons was imported into the United Kingdom this year, an increase of 168,269 gallons over 1894. Three wild buffalos are said to have been discovered by Indians in the country between the Judith river and Armell’s creek In Montana. A wey on the Bannock reservation at Boise, Idaho, has been sunk to a depth of 110 feet, and the water In it is of a temperature of 90 2-5 degrees. A boy of 14 and a gjrl of 11 were married in Johnson county, Georgia, the other day. The parents of the children interposed no objection to the marriage. Lieutenant Feijo of the Spanish army in Cuba has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for surrendering Fort Pelayo to the insurgents without a proper defense..