Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

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Frits says FAnce sends an frondad to Egypt to show her Fjench-sliip prob- _ targe nnd valuable elm trees at Mew Haven, Conn., the, “City of Elms/* have been killed by escaping gas. The total expenses of tne Boston public schools last year, exclusive „of mew sctyol-kouses, was f 1,559,677. _ The two Siamese princes before leaving Paris; bought3so piand for their brother's harem. Six hundred snags .and logs have been pulled out of the upper part of Rest river of Louisiana by the snag-boat Wagner since the middle of August Wolves are appearing in great numbers in the east of France. A pack recently devoured 1 fifteen sheep and a goat close to a country house. The Shah of Persia has sent to the -emperor Francis Joseph the Order of the Sun, set in diamonds, as a gift to the Princess Stephanie. A Pennsylvanian has leased ten thousand acres of land near Woodbury, Canton county, Tenn., and will bore for oil. The water of the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie has been pronounced unfit for drinking, but the people pay no more attention to this fact ..than if it was announced unfit for firewood. It was a Boston lad who, walking one day with his guardian, saw a drunken soldier lying ip the street, and pointing to the recumbent figure, remarked: £?*Papa, I guess he doesn’t belong to the •■standing army.” Conversation on a seaside hotel veranda between a young man- and an ■elderly guest: Young man—“l must have seen you somewhere, sirF* Elderly gent—“ Very likely; lam a pawnbroker.” * A deposit of iroq ore has been found near Williamson, Va., which is believed to be the m st extensive yet discovered in Allegheny county—“enough to run half a dozen furnaces like Longdale and Lowmoor for a thousand years.” A young man in San Antonio, Tex., has been punished severely for defaming a young lady of that* city. The victim of his evil tongue went for the scandal monger on the street corner -and horsewhipped him severely. A young man of San Antonio, Tex., fractured his j»w bone so completely that*his attending physicians drilled hedes through the bones and bound tnem back into place by means of thread wire. Over 40 per cent of the imports at Sain Francisco in August is credited to China and Japan. A large portion of these imports, however, is in transit for markets in the Atlantic states, and San Francisco gets very little benefit from the movement The gas company of New Bedford, Mass., encourages the use of gas stoves in that city by leasing the stoves and making connection with the pipes without cost. In four years they in this manner let over four hundred stoves from June to November. A somewhat singular feature has recently been developed in the movement of specie. Australia and New Zealand are sending their specie to San Francisco instead of London. This practically amounts to withdrawal from England to America. ‘The wisest of all sayings,” said someone in the hearing or Charles Lamb Kenney, an old journalist who * has just died in London, “is the old •Greek maxift,*Know thyself.’ ” “Yes,” said Kenney, “there's a deal of wisdom in it ‘Knos thyself,’ but never introduce a friend.!’ Telegraphing in Japan and China is no slouch of a job. There are 44,000 characters or hieroglyphics in the language, and no telegraphic alphabet is cqualwo the task of representing them. A system hasr been devised by which cnly 6,900 characters, divided into 214 classes, heed be used, and by the aid of numbers they can be transmitted by wire. But imagine a lightning operator ..in America trying to send several thousand words of a newspaper “special” by such a method as that The operator, the message, and the telegraph editor would all probably be badly “broken pp” in the operation. During the present season 47,414,064 pounds of salmon have been canned on the Pacific coast The future of the business in that region depends largely Upon the results of the season’s foreign shipments, regarding which much interest and some natural anxiety are fqlL An Austrian engineer has been makingexperiments in blasting rocks under water in the Danube. He places a cylinder containing dynamite on the rock, and explodes it by means of an electrical apparatus. The rock is shattered, when the dynamite explodes, into fragments so small that they are washedmway by thejstream- The process is said to save 40 per cent in the cost of removing Submerged rocks. A sad case of bereavement occurred fn Atlanta, Ga. A (laughter of a widow lady died and was taken to Augusta for interment.* While absent another of her*children had died. This one was taken to the same place for burial by the grandmother, and ere she returned a third child was stricken down and •died in a few hours. Electricity is now employed in the rectification of inferior alcohol; The electricity generated by a Voltaic batteryand a dynamo electric machine is Sassed through the alcohol so as to isengage the superfluous hydrogen. By this means beetroot alcohol, which is ustftllyvery poor, can be made to yield 80 per cent of spirits, equal to that ob'sdned from the best malt. . The London Lancet nye, speaking of dhurch-bells: “They are an intolerable and most mischief-making nuisance. To the sick their ding-dong and jangle are a serious annoyance, and we do not hesitate to say that in many oases the

loss of rest and the disquietude they pro £ fto ‘ r T* only recovery, but May expedite sf fatal issue.’”*' The imagination seems to havefpll play in the Catskills, where it is sdd Garfield’s face is as clearly and distinctly drawn against the blue sky by the irregularly undulating boundary of the Catskills, as if a faithful artist hail traced itj A number of people are said to have seen the apparition, while passing the “Reclining Giant” or the ‘Man in the Mountains, on the river. The Chicago Tribune reassures timid travellers, frightened by the recent train robberies, as follows: “The trouble on the Alton railroad is only temporary. A number of fine safety deposit cars are now being built, and when they are completed no fear of train robbers need be felt Each pas‘senger will be locked in a chilled steel casket before the train reaches Missouri, and on reaching the state line will be unlocked and set at liberty again by officials of the road stationed at that point It is believed that by adopting this plan.'the James boys will eventually be obliged to work for a living.” A home for intemperate women was established in Boston three years ago by a good woman who was deeply moved by the unfortunate condition of some of her sisters, and she has carried it on successfully and to a point where it needs to be enlarged. In the three years 374 intemperate women have been under her care, but the greater portion of them are now leading sober, industrious, and respectable lives. Most of her patients are poor, others are able to pay for their board. The inmates labor constantly for their own support. A laundry and a sewingroom are established in the home, where work is well done. Very little has yet been said or written about the latest and most audacious act of vandalism which a long-suffering world has been called to endure. This is nothing less atrdcious than the introduction of steamboats on the Grand canal of Venice. The triumphs of a practical age have left few spots invested with the peculiar beauty and fascination which belonged to the world when it was jounger, and one of those feAspots is, or assuredly was, Venice. The presence of the steamboats tends to the rapid extinction of the gondolas, and when the gondolas have disappeared from the canals of Venice very little of the poetry of motion will be left on earth.