Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — A Profitable Commodity. [ARTICLE]

A Profitable Commodity.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The common mucilage of commerce is prepared by boiling ordinary glue in vinegar and water and adding a little alum. All the ingredients are very cheap and there is a large profit in the sale, as a few cents’ worth of materials will make a basketful of the product. The World’s Fair kitchen occupies a building 312 feet long by 125 feet wide. It supplies the fifty restaurants in the White City with food. Its bigness makes it an exhibit, for it is the largest kitchen the world ever saw. Food for 10,000 people can be tnrned out at any time for “the first table.” It is not lack of service which prompts people to carry their own lunches to the fair; it is high prices only. The crowd which came tho opening day ate 200 sandwiches, 50,000 doughnuts and other things on that scale, and paid for them. y ■ According to Topinard, the average height of Laplanders is 60.7 inches; of Bushmen, 62; of Chinese--64; of Frenchmen, 65; of Russians, 65.4; of Germans, 66.2; of Danes--66.2; of Irishmen, 67; of English, men, Scotchmen and Swedes, 67.4, of American Indians, 68.2; of Patagonians, 70.3. The venom of the cobra, if swallowed, is harmless. ‘ •- "-*• ~-«r »-■ r “ ....

□ “•. uu uctieve we van ever uc ' together. I Fred—Well, what's the use of bothering over trifles;-what I want to know is if you will marry me?