Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1883 — OUR MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES. [ARTICLE]

OUR MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES.

A snow-white squirrel was killed at Brazos Bend, Texas. Mb. Robert C. Gilmer, of Columbia, Ky., found a guinea's nest on bls farm containing sixty-three eggs. Mbs. Mart Tanner, of Walton county, Ga., wove seven yards of cloth In one day, made it Into two shirts, and went to tea at a neighbor’s five miles away. Mrs. Arthub Fobte. of Wrightsville, Ga, has a hen and partridge sitting on the same nest The partridge is as gentle as the hen and has seventeen eggs, while the hen has only eleven. Da D. P. Homjoway, of Sumpter, Ga, has a pair of woolen gloves made by his sister from wool out from the horse he rode during the war. The hone is now 27 years old, and, the doctor says, is quite wooly. Angela Cabdelia, of Nevada, a native of Italy and 38 years old, claims to be the strongest man in the world He plapes the middle finger of his right hand under ttye foot of a person weighing 200 pounds and lifts him*tp a table four feet hign. Capt. John Flush, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., has a pet toad that he has learned to catch files,and the little creature will come to him when he whistles and submit to being placed on a table where some attraction has been placed for files. This done, ft will amuse an audience by the expert and swift manner It will dispose of these winged pests, jumping at times several feet high and protruding its tongue almost an inch in efforts to reach its prey. As William Collins was passing over a piece of land he was cultivating on the site of old Fort Hardy, at Schuylerville, N. Y., his attention was attracted by a guttering object on the ground It proved to be a Spanish coin of 1747. It bore on the obverse the inscription of Ferdinand VL, and on the reverse the motto: “ Vlra aue together with the “pillars of Hercules," bearing the inscription: u Ne plun ultra. ” It was undoubtedly dropped at the spot during the French and Indian war preceding the Revolution