People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — MISSING LINKS. [ARTICLE]

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Traveler —Who governs here? South American Inhabitant —Oh! we take turns.—Puck. An opera singer has been arrested in Venezuela because she would not respond to an encore. Eighteen tons of steel disappear daily on the London & Northwestern railway through wear and rust. It is said that people who drink a great deal of water have rheumatism less than the non-water drinker. Four daily papers of Fargo, N. D., have died during the year, the last being the Commonwealth (Populist). It is said that carp are so plentiful in the St. Joseph river, near Niles, Mich., that they can be caught with bare hooks. The prison population of England has fallen off in late years. Out of 113 prisons, fifty-seven have been altogether closed. As early as the time of Alexander 11. of Scotland, a man who let weeds go to seed on a farm were declared to be the king’s enemy. “Have you heard from uncle who went to Africa as a missionary?” “Oh, yes! A frientl sent me the menu.” — Fliegende Blaetter. It costs Great Britain 815,000 a year to maintain the Queen’s pack of deerhounds. The people are petitioning her to give them up. Of 276 members of the Connecticut legislature which will convene next month, one hundred are farmers. The lawyers number only twenty-three. “Would you please help me?” said the poor beggar to the pedestrian. “I have a wife -nd five children at home, and an installment to pay on my bicycle to-morrow!” —Yonkers Statesmen. “On the right,” said a Killarney guide to a party of tourists, “ye'll see a cascade called ‘The Maiden’s Tears’ and on the left a cascade called ‘The Widow’s Tears,’ ’cause it dried up the quickest.”