Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1902 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Not one drop of Intoxicating liquor Is allowed to be sold at any of the military camps of Canada. A club is now being formed in Paris the members of which swear never to shake hands with any one unless wear* ing gloves. Fifteen years ago native Christians could rarely find employment in India. Now they are preferred by contractors because they do more and better work than the heathen. In honor of the four hundredth an* niversary of the discovery of Brazil in May. 1900, there will shortly be a special issue of stamps as follows: Discovery of Brazil, 100 reis; independence, 200 reis; abolition, 500 reis; republic, 700 reis. The earldom of Dartmouth is the latest peerage to be threatened with a “claimant.” The “rightful heir” is to be found, it seems, in William Legge, an employee of the Capital Planing works, Ottawa, who has served his apprenticeship to a gardener. A newly married couple in Portland, Me., who are both deaf and are trying housekeeping without a servant, have devised an ingenious substitute for a doorbell. When a caller presses the electric button, all the lights in the house flash up and his presence is made known.