Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1882 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

—■'■l i j v » We are glad to' note thaTfn™ BT&w* editor makes no attempt to defend atrocious attempt to Poster while he was absent. One liund r worth of army stores are to be issued by the war department to the sufferersby the late floods in the south. I T w ii] interest those whose charters have expired to know that the attorney genW*L of. iUpi United States has can reorganize under the same name. The Standard oil company, of Cleveland, 0., was organized in 1870 capital of $1,000,000. Its capital 1 is now $35,000,000, and $10,000,000 has been paid in dividends in the years - i(iH vvtf North Carolina will hold her state election in November this yb**, r instead of August, as formerly, an 4 will choosy one of the , supreme court, lour judges ol the superior court and members^oTth^e^^a^ur^*. Even poor old } has a woman trouble auaeuto his Irish and annoyances, Madame <|e Novlkoff, a Russian lady, has been compelled to leave London because of “indiscretions,” with the great prime minister. j.ii). | .r.ati.'4«- \ / A lawyer in Virginia has retired from the bar and abandoned the profession forever, and just because a pretty school girl would not, as a yyitress, be confused by him. When he had exhausted himself she sweetly said: “Don’t you want to ask me some A Sir ole plate of perforated zinc, about a f6ot square, suspended over a gas let, is said to retain the noxious emanations' from the burning "gas, which it is well known, destroys the bindings of books, tarnish the gilding and vitiate the atmosphere for breathing. .

“The government ii no more in favor of the immigration of its t-jiifl Cpuotry than are tbe YahoMff&BlQrma truthfully says the Courier-Journal, and.'Which anyone knowing anything of China will subscribe tjo.; \ <l/ the empire w r ere, in fact, to have its way, there would be neither commercial nor personal intercourse between the two countries- iy

A tretty young lady, at Rochester, Indiana, of the highest respectability, Pressed up in mejj’s clothesi andmade the rounds of the gambling dens and drinking places. She says she had a perfect revalation of the wickedness of men and will never, never marry. The only drawback to the evening’s pleasure was that the police arrested her and put her in jail until she revealed her name and her parents came in hot haste for her.

The supreme court of Tennessee, in a test case, has decided that it is unlawful to sell pools in that state on horse races outside of Tennessee. Judge Turney, in rendering the opinion of the court, holds that the law of the state “.legalizing horse-racing is intended to encourage theimproveof stock; that it is intended exclusively for the benefit of the state, and that the state has no such (Interest in 'be race stock of a sister stdte as to astify it in making lawful gaming within its borders on racing done elsewhere.” This is apparently a new and novel form of the state rights doctrine. ;

Whatever may be said of Russia and its treatment of the Jews, or its despotic form of government, we can learn something from it in the way of temperance . legislation. The liquor law of the empire is very comprehensive and easily understood. There is no “local option” about it, but the czar decrees that there shall he no more than one drink-shop in any Russian village, and where two or three villages are near together the one drink-shop shall suffice for all, and this shall #emanageAbya “man born and resident in the village,”who shall be appointed by the common council and paid by salary. *, id to derive no pecuniary profit beyond-his salary, is to sell also food and'tea, and is liable to fine, dismlsduXlWW flVen irnpriament if he alloffs any lhah ofr woman* to get drunk on hip. premises. In a given contingency, if the population should become notorious}/ drunken and disorderly, thecouirriuoal autborities are stye,gf;J or

Mr. Edison is in Florida. Canada has 120,000 Indians. * ft New # s , 6fty owes $98,000,000. Boston exchange. cost $20,000. The Prince of Wales is fond of ato•HPto «• Ifni wl torbe called “profesfi 'tSTutt Europe to study cookery” -'-ed Sir* Walter Scott’s Abootsford is 4 Ale’ fenpreme Court love dine out. Rochester* N. Y. f is to have a new 1500,000 hotel. 3jnpriso*iisiea&‘ for debt still exists In New. York. »r“ r ‘ ,iography flMt& Uodcw of oolored Good Templars. im* south w4ll*plant more corn than usual this y^r ( . ~ . Theje.are I*ool Indiana in the everglades of Florida. Seventy American wdmen tbok oht patents last year. * j, One of the Signal > Service observers In Indiana is a lady. There Is plenty of snow for logging In upper Wisconsin. £ London brokers cleared $5,000,000 on the Paris krack. Too Too, is the name of a new Postoffice in Alabama. f

. All veteran firemen, it is said, condemn iron shutters. A child with two heads was recentborn near Gadsden, Ala. Kansas has 20) Presbyterian churches, with 13,041 members. Selling a vicious cow as “gentle” cost a Wisqonsinite $250. B •i* - The Boston girls have begun to wear police helmet hats. A gifted Bostonian is getting up a burlesque on "Pinafore.” 6 P k® B decided to send a papal delegate to Canada. West Virginia claims the finest cooking coal iu the world. ’ The funded debt of New York cittr March 1 was $98,685,736,89. , ' T In California gum tree roots will run sixty ifees hi eight years, f . “ftpera houses” 4rk going up in most of the Coloradatowns. V A manufacturer boasts that he sends pK*rfames to Persia.

p azen ? v,a Y,) man f 1,000 to steal a pack of flour. A cremation society has' been in—corp irated in San Franscisco. Miss Thursby has been singing at a concert in Nice, with Capoul. Shrimp canning has been added to the industries of New Orleans, Jn swell Parisian society it is not the fashion now to dance much: Baldwin county, Alabama, has no resident lawyer, nor has it a jail. Oshkosh claims to make more doors than any other city on the globe. Three hundred and fifty homoeopathic physicians in New York state. It is no longer considered outre in London for ladies to ride byclcles. Negroes continue to leave Tennessee in large numbers for Arkansas. The German authorities will raise carrier pigeons for use in the army. n^ liah clergymen recent'y •xhibited their pets at a dog show. When Kansas’s school lands are all sold the state will have $10,000,000. Cyrus Field’s now building at the Battery will be sixteen stories high. Of Secretary Frelinghuysen it is charged that he is socially very cool. Mr. Blackstock, of Jefferson, Ga., has nineteen children. Fertile stock. During the last year 273 cases of suicide occurred in the Prussian army.

The first altar mentioned in Scripture was erected by Noah after the flood. Archimedes Invented a screw for faciltiating irrigation in Egypt, B. C. 600. One Michigan town hns a brine Vat 260 feet long, 125 feet wide and 18 feet deep. Mexico has a regular army Qf 40,000 men, which can be increased to 100,000. Two hundred and fifty thousand cans of clams are put up in Maine yearly. ' - The Island of Elba, Napoleon, I.’s old home, is being strongly fortified by Italy. Dead wood celebrated Washington’s tarring' and feathering a Gen. Fltzhugh Lee has begun to write a history of the campaigns of Lee’s ai my l , 'Prjull Pigii’s patience is sorely tried by che obstinacy of Several hundred coil^a£ues K ; ; , „