Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

ALL SORTS.

The earth has limit*, but hmnan folly . b indefinite. Americam girts are the favorite* in Roman society—a* else where. * ‘‘Suffering b the badge of all the tribe o< jurymen,” according to M Em glish emayist. q Wmh a General b on the retreat he forget* for the moment how rtoriou* orator* think Bb to die for one 7 * oounM. Dn Lemeps *ay« th* American women are the * handaomeet in the world. The canal scheme ought to progress now. ■> - ■ ‘‘The people of Belleville listen longingly for the snort of th* iron horse, b the way a Texas paper gives it away that they want a railroad. . Grandeur of expression is a great thing. A Nihilist was asked to specify hb doctrine*. He replied: “Take the land, take the sky, take the State and the churdh, the Kings, the Emperors and God, and spit upon them. That’s our doctrine!” • “ The principle that change of work is rest, and that really gifted person* have always a surplus of energy to expend en pursuits other than those by which they gain their bread is strongly exemplified in modern life,” exdauns a foreign writer. Hope on, hope ever, is a very good rule; but when oQn remembers the various obstacles which make life a sort of steeplechase he b apt to think that the better rendering of the old adage would be, Hop on, hop ever. —N. Yil/erald. “ A son of General Grant,” says the Paris Olobe. “ formerly President of the Republic of the United States, is about to marry himself to a young American. Miss Jenny Flood, who brings him as a dowry the bagatelle of 92,500,000 (12,600,000 francs.”) The Rev. Dr. Hatfield, of Chicago, is credited with saying that he would rather bring up his children in the lowest :nd most immoral neighborhood than in the most refined society where dancing, card-playing and theater-go-ing are tolerated. Brussels carpet, silver-plated icecoolers aud rosewood desks are not absolutely necessary for a Western newspaper office. A seven-barreled horse pistol, a pot of paste and a pair of shears are all the furniture that is really necessary to begin operations with.— J/. Y.Exprun. A Kansas man bet ten dollars that with hb ritie he could shoot an Apple off his son’s head, ala William Tell. He tried it with the brave boy’s consent, but aimed badly, and instead of merely piercing the apple on the lad’s head, the bullet took the life of a mole in the next field.- Botlon

“Is married preferable to single life?” was argued at a recent meeting of the Kokomo Debating society. Only one married man for the negative, and he came down to business next day with his arm in a sling, a green patch over his eye, and a general appearance of having slefit out all night in the cellar.— Tipton (Jnd.) Timet. A French marquis on leaving home bad a lot of man traps set in his preserves to protect the game from poachers, and while the marquis was away the man who placed them died and nobody knows just where the things are set; and as the peasantry obstinately refuse to avail themselves of the nobleman's permission to hunt on his grounds, the game is being well protected. The hottest water yet encountered on the Comstock is in the Belcher, on the three-thousand-foot level. It. is with difficulty that its exact U mperature can be taken, as the hole is horizontal. By holding the bulb of the thermometer under the drippings from the hole the mercury rises to 162. Could \he exact temperature of the water be obtained by fastening a bulb in the hole it would doubtless add a few degrees to the above. On the mountain water boils at 198. That gold crosses are often hollow is well enough known, but perhaps few persons have diaoovered what a French writer has—the use to which the vacant space is put by English ladies. It is filled, he says, with cordial, or sherry, or brandy, for sipping in public places; and thus the religious'symbol is made to administer tn creature comfort. “This custom can be observed nightly at the opera, whf re a charming young English lady is in the habit of pressing to her lips at the most pathetic passages an enormous gold cross.” Jf this story is an invention, it is at least ingenious. The chain-mail vest which is said to have saved General Melikoff from Vladetski’s bullet, has for many generations past been a common article of wear with th* leading personage* of Europe, the most notable examples being Oliver Cromwell, Gustavus of Sweden, the present Csar and Louis XIV. In the Middle Ages these mail-coats were ' known as “ Milan riiirts,” and greatly esteemed for the fineness of their workmanship. A famous Italian guerrilla, who went into the battle of Ravenna thus equipped, was found dead with the links of his mail still unbroken, though the bones beneath it were completed shattered by the force of the death blow'. A “ bullet-proof ” vest of this kind was offered by a speculator to the Duke of Wellington, who got rid of himin a very charitable fashion. Bidding the man p'ut it on, he called to the sentry outside to load with ball-cartridge and come up at once; but the visitors confidence in his invention did not apparently extend to the testing of it in his own person, for he took to his heels at once.

< - —ln the pastoral regions of Texas one thousand head .of stock cattle, aa usually found on ranches, will double their number within three years. This allows for losses of age, disease and accident. The net increase is at the rate of thirty-three and one-third per cent, per annum. This accounts, in part, for the fortunes accumulated in a few yean by cattle-raise rfi. Some of the cattle men are immensely wealthy. • t —Canon Farrar has written a tetter to Mr. Joseph Cook, in which he nays: “It seems to me that drunkenness stands almofit ’al<me among human sins in being absolutely curable and preventable. The work achieved by Mohammed alone is sufficient to prove that thia source ot crime and misww might ba simpli eliminated from the list of the evils which scourge mantftind.” ' . ’ ‘ —, < « » • The late James Lenox was heard to say twenty-flve yean ago: “I have learned by experience the difference between businees and benevolence.” He W bees known te refuse to lend a mta money because the security seemed insufficient, while at the same time be handed him a handaome present.