Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — A Lake of Soapsuds. [ARTICLE]

A Lake of Soapsuds.

For bitterness and promiscuous meanness the waters of Mono lake surpass those of the Dead f sea. They contain so much alkali that on a windy day the lake is a regular tub'of soapsuds. The writer has seen a wall of lather five feet high along the whole of that shore against which the waves were beating. Occasionally the wind would take up a bunch of this lather as big as a bushel Basket and carry it several hundred feet inland. 80 buoyant are the waters of the lake that quite a party of men may navigate them on a raft made us four or five dry cottonwood poles.—Baa Francisco Chronicle. f— ■ ■ -mu »'!• - Accurding to the Register ot Gov. Bradford, the first duel, Cough* in New England was in 1630, between Edward Doty and Edward Leister. Both were'wotmdet —one in the head, the other in She thigh. They were adjudged to have their head and feet tied together, and sojia for twen-ty-four hours without food. After remaining in this pWrifal‘plight TSr toFlour, they wer? ‘ because of their great painsf* on qplemn promise of good behavior, released by the Governor. Probably, had this penalty been rigorously inflicted in ali cases, duelling would soon have ceased. '* i r

The milk from 40,000 cows in 9t. Xawrence countyuhf. ’Tufa now manufactured iH cfMmeriey or factorie» The palace ofVers&lllM cpstXooiaXlV SwSn 1200,000,000. As one time were on the ArjE&Mßfflßßfesia • One of the MU eat keflntll in this country, Ind the purest in the west, is earned by lb-. W. H. Holabird, the Bportman’p Indiana. He' says: ."We use St. Jacobs Oil in our £*m. ily in preference to any other IlLiment f have also tried it in my kennel with wendetfuj results. ~ t , > —Hehry I, usually .known by the addition WBoauolere* en account of his )<fre for learning, was sou of theDedqusremand was born at Shelby, in York-shire-in 1068: . jp. 1 rr*t T* “a