Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — Hard to Bear. [ARTICLE]

Hard to Bear.

New York Weekly. Stranger—Why are those anarchists so howling mad at that inoffen-sive-looking minister? Resident —He wants them to join his church. “Hum! I don’t see anything in such an invitatibh to rave over.” “Yes, but he’s a Baptist.” ~ln 1890 the United States hud 307,575 acres in grapes, producing 24,306,905 gallons of wine. The annual consumption of meat in Australia is 276 pounds per inhabitant; in Argentina, 160; in the United States, 150; in Great Britain, 118; in France, 77; in Germany, 64; in Austria, 61; in Russia, 51; in Italy, 26. One of the most productive sec tions in the world is the Russian province of Bessarabi. 0 , taken from Turkey in 1878. Its vineyards often yield 300 gallons of wine per acre; the average yield of wheat is 35 bushels and of maize 60 bushels.