Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — GENERAL MISCELLANY. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Johnß. Gough estimates that he has lectured before 8,500,000 people. Walking from his home to the London docks, an aggregate of miles* man has collected 600,000 cigar ends in seven years. , 4 . ./t-X The widow of the late Captain DeLong of arctic fame, is 28 years old, petite, has light brown hair, hazel eyes, and i»a very pretty woman. The 333 d anniversary of the founding of the city of Bata Fe, N. M., will be celebrated in July next Santa Fe is the oldest An-erioan town in existence. A Russian Princess at a recent ball given in Nice wore a drees made entirely of peacock’s feathers. Heads of the birds, with eyes made of garnets, were used in the looping. The orator remarked: “What has this country to expect after the Forty-seventh Congress?” and a hoarse whisper from the gallery responded, “The forty-eighth.” A New Hampshire wildcat sprang from a tree at a boy and landed in a kettle of bailing sap. The boyeays the way that cat looked back at him aa she started off almost melted his heart. While overwork was the main cause of Secretary Folger’s illness, no doubt the defective ventilation of the Treasury building had something to do with it. The air in the long corridors is said to be offensive and poisonous. Ventilation is a matter of first importance in the construction of public buildings and yet, curiously, it is the thing that in nine cases out of ten receives the least attention. Of the 260,000 Indians in the United States, about 160,000 in the West, Northwest and Southwest require more or less military surveillance. One-fourth of them —or 50,000 in round numbers—are adults capable of bearing arms, but there are seldom more than from 100 to 1,000 Indians on the war-path. Yet we have on the border a force of 17,500 men -for purposes of repression and suppression. Prominent public men of France have lately expressed the opinion that the French Government is in no danger from Oricanists, Legitimists or Anarchists. Affairs are rnnning smoothly, despite the efforts of a small set of malcontents to put obstructions in the way and smash the Republic. Reports lately eent out from Paris about the designs and the doing of Communists seem to have been largely sensational.