People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — THE ROUND-UP. [ARTICLE]

THE ROUND-UP.

A man was sent to the work-house for thirty days for taking off his shirt on Fifth avenue, Pittsburg. The breechloading rifle is over 300 years old, but the principle only became general aft sr gun barrels were rifled. During his pres ent term of office as justice of the peace*Squire Jacob Kiser of Gaston, N. C., has married 172 couples. Utah has 3,000,000 acres of arable lands watered by 1,000 miles of canals. One canal, that of Bear river, cost <2,000,000. The best crop of grass found on most farms in Iceland is ou the roofs of huts, which are roofed with brick bark covered with earth. The longest diStßnice a letter can be carried within /the limit* of the United States is from Key West, Fla., to Ounalaska, 4,3*1 miles; and all for two cents. To prevent thll Evaporation of water in tire pails it has been discovered that fifteen to twenty drops of oil •will form a coating sufficient to ob viate the difficulty. Out of a family of nine at Newcastle, England, eight are still living. The eldest is ninety-one and the youngest aeventy-aix. The average age of the family is eighty-two. Pioquinto Miranda of Colombia. Central America, is living, blind and helpless, at the age of 122. One of his neighbors is 105 years oid and still able to work at knitting with coarse thread. In a murder trial at Dusseldorf lately the jury, after being locked up, mt-.de its way out through a window and went to a beer saloon, where it agreed on a verdict The result is an appeal for a new trial. Out of Yale’s 2,413 students in all departments, 738 come from Connecticut F 2« from Massachusetts, 147 from Pennsylvania, 531 from New York, 120 from Illinois, I£3 from Ohio, and ninety from New Jersey. The rest come from nearly every state in the union, and from sixteen foreign countries. A blow has been struck at the cigarstub industry in France. A manufacturer of tobacco made from castaway butts was charged in the courts with defrauding the revenue by not I (Saying the duty. He claimed that I the tobacco had already paid duty once, but the coart decided against him, and he had to pav the fine.