Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1892 — INTERESTING ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ITEMS.

A spring of natural cologne, with the „ perfubte of patchouli, hasbeoardUcovered in Algiers. A recent dever invention is the taxanom, a little lantern-like apparatus which, ingeniously placed at the back zOf a cab, measured tho -exact tfiatnnee traversed by iu It is now being tried at Berlin, under police inspection, and it is said to answer exceedingly well. Tax stamps have been established in Switzerland to enable the poorer classes to pay their tuxes in sm >ll installments instead of handing out a lump sum. The taxpayers can buy weekly a few 25 or 30 centime stamps, and so gradually clear oil his debt to tho government : f' /. Tho Prussian Minister of Industry has published an atcount from which it seems that the artificial coffee bean recently discovered on sale consists principally of lupines, and contains about half a par cent, of caffeine, derived from a slight proportion of kola nuts: The busies cont.iius tannin and some resinous matter. London is believed to bo tho largest city in the world. In 1881 that portion of it' included within the resristration area had 3,814,571 inhabitants, occupying 75,302 acres. “Greater London.’’ as the entire London polico district is called, had 4,704,312 inhabitants. occupying 087 square miles. At present “Registration London” alone has hardly less than 4,250,000 souls, and “Greater London,” or the whole city, has probably over 5,260,000.