Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — SHORTS. [ARTICLE]

SHORTS.

An optical illusion—A glass eye. It is a cold day when ice cream gets left A pair of slippers—Orange and banana skins. The odor of narcissus is sickening to many people. - Edwin Forrest’s wardrobe and jewelry sold for A plumber always has an eye to the “main” chance, A bobtail car beats a flush when a fat man runs after it Nun’s veiling will be as popular as ever for summer wear. The scriptures are published in 250 languages or dialects. The king of Portugal receives a salary of 8140,000 a year. Beal estate in Macon has doubledin value within a year. Marshal Bazaine is to write a book on the Franco-Prussian war. Caught in the act —a stammering tragedian.—[N. Y. News. An Ohio man got 1,045 bushels of tomatoes off two acres, last year. One Jacqueminot rose can be made to scent a parlor for ten days. The funds for Westminster Abbey bravely suffer to keep it in repair. An Indian’s widow is expected to keep in mourning for twenty moons. An Alexandria constable has been fined 820 for cutting off a cat’s tail. To make a perfect base ball takes three years’ apprenticeship at least. , A steel hammer just made in Pittsburg will strike a 44,000 pounds blow. It is the cooper who has the staving time—He is always hooping it up. The clubs of London exceed eighty, and have aproperty aggregating 85,000,000. The Methodists expect to build 450 churches in the United States this year. A man in Goshen, N, Y., bets he can live three months on an hour’s sleep a day. Providence has a‘population of 116,755 having gained about 12,000 in three years. A correspondent says sparrows make “a good chicken pie!”—[Philadelphia S|ar. Howard Glyndon, the magazine poet, is Mrs. Edward Searing. She is totally deaf. General Grant is growing corpulent. He has gained twenty-one pounds this winter. Thousand of acres of public land in Texas are changing owners at fifty cents per aora The Cherokee Indians keep a representative at Washington at a salary of 84,000 a year. Sorrows are our best educators. A man may see farther through a tear than a telescope. The Hotels of St. Augustine, Fla., never before contained so many guests as they do now. Rhode Island’s mortality by consumption is only sixty per cent of that of Massachusetts. The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one’s self more cunning than others.— [Charron. The cost of the government in the eity of Paris is a little more than 850,000,1)00 annually. Marion is the largest county in Mississippi, and has 1,486 square miles; Clay is the smallest, 401 square miles.