A couple more news tidbits from a Scott Co, IA newspaper that are not particular to a county, but interesting to note! Daily Times Davenport, Scott, Iowa Aug 21, 1890 FACTS AND FANCIES It is estimated that abut 34,000,000 people die every year, or nearly sixty a minute. It is estimated $25,000,000 is spent annually in this country alone for advertising. The average width of a path of destruction with tornadoes is said to be little more than 1,000 feet. It is estimated that the number of passengers carried by all the railroads in the world averages 6,500,000 a day. The center of population of the United States is now at Madison, Ind., near the junction of the 39th parallel and the 55th meridian. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE LATEST IN LETTERS NEVER use a postal card. The colloquial style is by far the most agreeable while a didactic method of expression is unpleasant and to be avoided. In fashionable stationery the faintest shade of pink is the latest, there being a water mark of Cupid with his suggestive bow and arrow. A MARRIED woman's letters always should be addressed in the name of her husband, as "Mrs. Romaine Brown", instead of "Mrs. Amelia Brown" BLACK ink is the rule, although some women, notably those with romantic proclivities, affect violet ink, which, it must be admitted, flows easier and is of a superior to the ebony fluid. The angular English style of handwriting, although neither legible nor symmetrical; is one in high favor, the flowing Italian and the cramped French chirography being quite out of date. GOOD Sense and good taste should govern one's correspondence as it should all other things, and a man or woman of fine breeding, education, and heart will not go very far astray in the inditing of polite epistles. WOMEN should know better often sign themselves "Mrs. So-and-So" or "Miss So-and-So", instead of using their Christian names. This is the some of vulgarity, but if, when writing to a stranger, it is necessary to state whether Miss or Mrs., place the prefix in parentheses as "(Mrs.) Amelia Brown"