Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1883 — GENERAL MISCELLANY. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The U. 8. use 75,000,000 pounds of tea* year. The N. Y. canals will not be opened before May 10. Asia Minor has olive trees 1,200 years old, in full bearing. A Cincinnati firm is making a SIO,OOO bar for a Texas saloon. Richmond, by a police census, has a population of 70,684; in 1880 it had 63,600. N. Y. city has just one regiment of ragpickers. The monks and nuns in Italy number nearly 32,000. Many Catholic priests in Italy receive only SBO a year. There are over 900 blind persons ’in the state of Arkansas. Our national flour export has more than trebled in ten years. The best butter brings eighty cents a pound in N. Y. and Philadelphia. . Solom Chase, of Maine, has suspended publication ot his paper, Them Steers. The telegraph cannot sing, but it can beat time. Not a single house in Manila escaped damage from the recent typhoon. A Clevelander complains of milk that is “thin waisted and gander shanked.” The Castleton, N. Y., concern which marks our postal cards turns out 1,250,000 a day, Mr. William Black is supposed to be making the largest income of any English novelist living. Pennsylvania contains 46,000 square miles; England, 50,992; Ireland, 82,582, and Scotland 30,463. Mr. Welsh, of Flushing, L. L, gets three months of hard labor for kissing a lady on the street Francis Murphy, the temperance man, had suohsuoessat Carlisle, England that 1,000 persons were persuaded to join his Blue Ribbon society. Italian oxties find it cheaper to run art galleries and suoh things, to attract strangers who will give alms to beggars, than to support the beggars|in poorhouses. Register Bruce, next to Frederick Douglass, about the most noted representative of his race, was refused a seat in a white barber’s chair in Washington the other day. A N. Y. Qentral railroad engineer will, not take a train cut on any day that a white cat has run across his path. He has tried it several times and has always met with accidents.

A somnambulistic girl got out of bed at Prescott, Minn., and walked across half a mile of ice and snow to the railroad station, clad in her night clothes only, and was waiting for a train when awakened. Ben. Perly Poore says that he has found proof, in the Congressional library, that Jefferson was not inaugurated with the democratic simplicity that has been supposed. but with cannons firing and whatever display was possible. Domestic government.—Working joiner (button holed on his way home by political plumber): “Look ’ere! Come along and my missus will give us a cup o’ tea, and you’ll see the speaker an’ the opposition an* ’ome rule all in one!” Out of a population of 25,000,000 England sends only 5,000 students to her two great universities. Scotland, with a population of 4,000,000, hud 6,500 university students, and German?, with a population of 43,000,000, has 22,500, students in her various universities. The inscription “Ysnat" on a jar in a Philadelphia Indian doctor's shop, puzzled a reporter until he that it was “Tansy’’spelled backward. With this clue he read other names of mysterious medicines with a clearer understanding than before. West Indians have a curious test for telling whether a persorf has negro blood in his veins. It is called toe nose test. The negro has no division in the gristle of the oartiligenous portion of his nose, such as all of pure white blood can feel at its tip with the end of the finger. This is the last thing to yield to the white accession. Any negro blood is marked with a nose the gristle of which is undivided, and the object of putting this paragraph in is to prove that no person will read it through without touching the finger to ths nose.