Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — GENERAL [ARTICLE]

GENERAL

Milk is said to be better than all stimulants in nervous disorders. » The test of a good orange is said to be its thin skin and heavy weight It is said that fashionable ladies won’t go fishing tins summer unless they can get silk worms for bait Punch says that the English reward of bravery is a garter and a wooden leg to wear it on. Black walnut lumber, when dry and in good order, brings the enormous sum of $l5O per thousand. Yellow-haired girls have taken to the wearing of velvet coats of reddish chocolate hue in order to emphasize the luster of their locks. ’Th not an allopath, a homeopath, or a hy-dropath.” said a certain doctor. “But your patients all take the same path ,’’ was the consoling answer. Mr. Knight, the superintendent of the Maginnis cotton factory at New Orleans, makes the prediction that in twenty years all the mills of the United States producing plain brown cotton goods will be located in the south. A fair and accomplished young Dr. Fell in love with a lady named Pr., But his terms scientific. Game forth so terrific, That they really and truly quite shr. Persons uring kerosene lamps will be glad to know that if the wicks are soaked in strong vinegar twenty-four hours, and thoroughly dried before being inserted all smoke will be avoided, the wicks will last twice as long and increased brilliancy of light be obtained. Ex-Judge William Lewis an eccentric character of Texas, who died in Dallas a few days ago, was with Houston in the battle of San Jacinto. He died so poor that his remains were about to be borne to a pauper’s grave, when a few men raised SIOO to give him a decent bunal. King Humbert of Italy drives himself about in a T cart like any other quiqt gentle n.an in Rome. When his carriage gets blocked, as it frequently does in the narrower streets, he takes it more patiently than the foreigners do, who admire the way in which he sits and nods and laughs to acquaintances in the crowd. The medical society of Scott courtyt lowa, has elected Dr. Jennie McGrown, a well known woman physician of Davenport, as its president for the ensuing year. This is the first instance in the history/of the medical fraternity in which a woman has been chosen for the executive pbsiion of a medical society. Unless the newspapers stop calling the Episcopal marriage service “beautiful, and the funeral service “impressive,” or ‘grand” or “stately,” every time a marriage or a funeral is solemnized by their use, the people will stop using them. For this purpose those adjectives are entirely and totally worn out An apple in perfect preservation after 96 years is in possession of a gentle - man in Ulster county. N. Y., As it rounded up from the blossoms of the parent stem in the early summer of 1787 a bottle was drawn over it and attached to the branch, and after the apple had ripened the stem was severed and the bottle sealed tightly. It looks as fresh as when first plucked. The business of canning fruits and vegetables has grown to enormous proportions. Over 52,000,000 cans of tomatoes were pack ed last year, making one for every man, woman, aud child in the country, Nearly half of this work was done in Maryland and Virginia. The wholesale price for three-pound cans ranged from four to five cents each

The Mexican city of Chihuahna is rapidly becoming Americanized through its situation on the line of the Mexican Centeral Railroad, which has attracted many cizens brom the United States, Flour mills, breweries sugar refineries, street railroad, numerousr store and all the hotels are in the hands of Americans. The' Australian's are going for the sparrows with a vengeance. An Adelaide paper says: "The following figures, showing the number of sparrows and eggs that have been destroyed up to Nov. 6. have been supplied by Under Secretary: Heads 27.845; eggs, 197.212. From Oct 1 to Nov. 6. 5,420 heads were paid for and 44,685. eggs. A weapon found on a Philadephia burglar consisted of a canvas bag, 3 inches in diameter and 15 in length, filled with sand and having a wooden handle. A blow with it would not break the skin, like a dub, but would be stunning in its effect while the stroke would make no noise. Some cattle which a boy of 12 was watch ing iu Dakota were destroyed by a prairie fire. As the lad did not return home, it was believed that he had shared the same fate. It now appears, however, that the accident so frightened him that he wandered off, and remained away until he had earned money enough to cover the loss of the stock. Then he reappeared at home triumphantly.

A young fireman who ran with his so., Told the foreman that he would not po., In an excited manner, He picked up a hammer, And swore at him, but he did not tho.