Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1882 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

- ■ Italyhas littje coaj. ‘ Hayti has a Mvoliitibn. Ohio has been redistricted. England has |122 debt per capita. Canada has 10,505 miles of railroadA Meissonler is worth |SO a square Inch. , p< , Boston restaurants employ female waiters. , Red veils are prescribed for brunette wear. Ireland has had fifty-nine coercion laws. Ohio has one saloon to every 223 people. Dante has been translated into Greek. The lightest shade of green is called lichen. . There is an anti-Masonic movement in Maine. Organs were first used in church 660 A. D. Switzerland is about to pass its first patent law. Long Island has over a hundred trout ponds. General Butler is a flrm believer ni the Chinese. - The pecan crop of Texas amounts to $2,000,000 a year.

The canners of the Delaware peninsula will combine. The silk trade of Boston amounts to $8,000,000 annually. The area of the United States is 4,603,884 square miles. Lake county, Or., has had thirteen murders and no trials. Trousers can’t be too tight for the demand of good society. . Proctor Knott aspires to the governorship of Kentucky. Tombstone, Arizona, has 500 gamblers among its population. Frogs’ legs make a delicate and restorative soup for invalids. Richmond, Va., doesn’t employ one-tenth of her water power. Orange County, Florida, has 8,000 people, and only three paupers. Esthetes say the plug hat will be as extinct as the mastodon by 1900. The Peruvians will find that our new minister, Partridge, ’ is game. Circuses leave a strthg of young clothesline amateurs in their wake. Coal oil has been found at Litchfield, Ills.

The only axe handle factory in the South is at Dalton, Georgia. Travellers say that you cannot cheat an Arab in a horse trade. Seagulls go into New Jersey as far as fifteen miles to fresh water lakes. The population of the earth is estimated at 1,340,500,000. In South Carolina the negroes oatnumber the whites 218,174. England produces more beer than any other country. _ There were 1785 fires in New York city last year. There are one hundred*newspapers published in Nebraska.

Alabama enrolled 176,289 children in its schools last year. Some of the New Haven (Conn.) schools have introduced a fire drill. In. 1853 in Harvard one professor in ten only profgksed religion. The salary of a Chicago aiderman is only $3 for the session. The New York cotton, exchange building will cost SBOO,OOO. The patent rubber tip on pencils yields an independent income. The new helmets give a VonMoltka expression to the Chicago police. There is an anti-oleomargarine faction in the New York legislature. Savannah has just received her first Import of pig iron since the war. Since January 121,358 miles ofrailroad have been built in the United States. There is a fresh air mission a flower mission and an ice mission in St. Louis.

About six thousand acres of black walnut trees have been planted In Kansas. In Candeleria, Nevada, the water company sells water at five cents per gallon. The census shows that beer selling is vastly mpre profitable than spirit selling. The salaries of West Virginia’s supreme court judges are $2,250 each per annum. One million six hundred thousand acres are devoted t® beet cultivation in Europe. Forty thousand acres of land in Arkansas have been secured for an Italian colony. The 250th anniversary of the landing of the Maryland pilgrims will be kept. It is related that an English artist has photographed swallows on the wing. . Delawareans are mourning because there is going to be “a serious glut of peaches.” The St. Louis grand jury recommends that saloons be limited to one. in each block.