Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

CURIOUS FACTS. The railroads employ 750,000 voters. A Toronto inventor says his shij will cross the ocean in four days. It would take a train 3125 mile! long to curry the Kansas corn crop. A nickel-in-the-slot machine is being devised to take instantaneous photographs. Watermelon seeds were found In an Egyptian tomb that was 3,000 yean old. It is predicted that the peanut roaster of 1889 will do its work by tricity;—Disproportionableness, with twentyone letters, is arid to be the longest English word. According to the latest official reports, our Indian population now aggregates 262,620. The pension roll now bears 484,000 names, calliner for annual distribution of 11(10,000,000. lowa raises more corn than all the distilleries in the world can manufacure into alcoholThe area of the United States embraces 3,570,271 square miles; that of Canada 3,470,892 square miles European railroads are fenced in, have no grade crossings, the engine! have neither bell nor headlight, and the engineer must stand. A single sheet of paper six feet wide and 7$ miles in length has been made at the Watertown (N. Y.) Papei Works. It weighed 2207 pounds, and was made and rolled entire without s single break. It is estimated that the yield of gold and silver in Montana for the year wil' be $28,000,000, and the total metaproduction $45,000,000, against $24,000,000 gold and silver, and $38,000,000 total metal production last year From Jan. 1 to Oct 1, 1889, sever Montana mines paid over $3,500,000 ir dividends.