Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — GARNERED GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

GARNERED GLEANINGS.

A pint ot water converted into ttMtta HIM a space of about 1,800 pints. The sir ws breath contains, five grgisf of water to every cubic foot or bulk. " *i ti , SIUIVi * The number of optic nerve fibers is 488,000, and of retinal cones In tech human eye 3,800,000. iD n There are eatd to be about 8,100 efectWi lights in use in this country, ot which over three thousand are the Brush lights., it Georgia boasts the largest' peach - or, chard in the world. Iu covers 260 seres of land. The yield is said to be enormous. Frank Lord, of New York, who is so •killlul with bis pistol that he can cut in twain a card thrown up edgewise, is a lion in Paris. The phenomenon known as will o’-the-wisp and ignus fatuus, is simply the phosphoretted hydrogen which rises from the stagnant wafer —mushes. You have plenty of this world's goods if with your little you have contentment. If you nave not contentment you can never have enough es anything. Maritime glue is made by melting together one part of onvolcanixed eaoutchouc, previously softened or dissolved in coal naptha, and two parts of shellac. It is poor policy to count an the riches which you expect to have. The Italian ■ays that the man who sells tin' bearskin before he has caught the bear, is s fool. ‘ Everybody in the world wants to spi pear to be s gentleman, and yet everybody in the world forgets that the easiest way to accomplish it is to really M s gentleman. ! »Hll Twenty-three £n glish bicyclists lava < been visiting Calais. They wagered that they would reach Boulogne twenty minutes sooner than a steamer starting attbu same time. The steamer won by aquar-, ter of an hour. ,s An exchange prints a lengthy article on “Science at Breakfast.” Valuable wasted. Science at breakfast is getting, away with four slices of haul and* a. half dozen eggs while your view-vis is unftflfp ing his napkin. vilu* ■ -I: : ; lion rtltl 4 Jack Everman, a bank burglaii'left $5,000 at his death, in Philadelphia He made no will, and his natural heirs refuse to touch the money, because it is the’ proceeds of robberies. The legal queytipw. arises whether, there being ,mo heirs, the state can take the property.. v “JJar alnt no use o tryin’ to hide yes sins under fine clo’s, fo’ de Lawd can see gjickfroo broad-cloth,” said the Rev. James Delaean, at a Kansas camp meeting. Dan Kirby, a well-dressed gambler, construed the words as a personal insult, and whipped the preacher after the services. During the first six months of the . pres ent year three hundred and ninety ships, were registered in England as unseaworthy, and were in consequence detained from proceeding to sea,whileone hundred and twenty-five others were prevented from sailing because overladen. In a deaf mutes’ convention at Boston there was a pantomimic row over the charge of their President that soliciting agenu had kept back 40 per cent, of $4, 500 collected for a proposed home Thescene was a stange one—4oo persons' earnestly and excitedly gesticulating at each other without an audible word. Barney Wagner, a Hamilton county, lowa, farmer with wife and foor children, was some time since induced to sign wlrat he understood to be a contract, making him agent foi the sale of a hog cholera cure, but which was really a note for SIOO. Brooding over this trouble Wagner went crazy, and was taken to the insane agy- ( lum.

' While the population ot the United' Kingdom has increased since 1865 froth 29,861,908 to 84,505,048, that of Ireland has decreased by more than a quarter of a million, and the number of marriages has decreased by 6,000. While pauperism has decreased in England and Wales from 971,000 to 837,000, and in Scotland from 121,000 to 97,000, the returns from Ireland show an increase from 69,000 to 100,000. A remarkable family- of fat children live in Barren county, Ky. The father, Southland Chamber, weighs 180 pounds, and his wife only 112 pounds, but a six-year-old daughter weighs 290 pounds. The latter is Mtout as tall as other girls of her age, but measures eighty-four inches about the waist A son died when five yean old weighing 200 pounds, and some Jounger members of the family are growug fat rapidly. Dalye-Lsma, the earthly God of Thibet, lately became seriously ill. The priest applied to the emperor for the appoint!' ment of a new dhrinlty. The candidate has to present himself to the dying Dalye-' Lama, who transmits to him his divine 1 •col, which has thus been passed down from the founder of the Thibet religion, Dzon Eps. The yearly income of the deity oi Thibet is said to be over f 1,000,000He occupies a palace in which are nOupre, than one hundred golden idol* A new process has been patented for the manufacture of alumiritiin sodium and similar metals. The inventor uses molten iron as a reducing agenqjpad performs the operation in Bessemer converters. The importance of a cheap method of ;•»> ducing alum'num can scarcely He oven estkna’ed. As a metal it is probably the most abundant in the crust of the earthy and if it coaid be produced at- a low price. would largely supersede iron, over which K possesses great advantages for many* purposes. •*-* !

An Improved method of stopping engines, says the Electrician, ha% recently 1 Been devised. The main object of ibe 4«vise is to enable any child or qpskilled person in any part of a mill.fo ato’p me engine in case of accident. Tbfe adtionW* exceedingly simple. By touching a spring simi’ar to (be spring of an Mectrio jbellT anehclric ball is set in motion?; TS4 I ball drops and shut's one of the valvqfo, which prevents (be steam from CAQSDing, and the engine is brought to a staad-stlM

One of the tiltiipgper organs of thfe brewers, commenting upon the adCkm of the lowa Legislature in passing a joint resolution for a prohibitory constitutions] amendment, presents very gloomy forbodings, and says: “If these prohibitory measures should become a law, four grain distilleries and nine fruit distilleries will be destroyed. That loss ”it says, “small as it is, might be borne,but,”it adda,“therewill also be one hundred and fifty brewes ies otopped, which paid into the United bear produced by than, and millions of capital invested therein destroyed.* 4 'To 1 brewers, as business men, Otis picture has of course a formidable look. But there in another side to it To the people of lowa, as a whole, the stopping of th» thirteen distilleries and ot the one hundred and fifty brewies, torehadows great gain in many way* The millions of bushels of grain ana of fruits destroyed by the liquormakiug process, and for worse than wasted, would be husbanded tor wiser uses,, and the greater general abstinence tro'm' liquor-drinking, as among the people tbs Maine in like circumstances, would-great-lypromnte the public welfare and jpSpS* By —JfaHoruU Temperance Advocate. ot * Republicans of the Fifth district |of Massachusetts, have nominated 8. F. Bonson for congress;