Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1883 — SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE. [ARTICLE]

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.

A magnificent column of gray marble, -with baa relief, has been dug up in Rome. It belonged to the Temple of. Serapis, and it is hoped to excavate the whole temple. The ostrich ,farm near Anaheim, CaL, has proved a success. Some SSOO worth of feathers have already been picked, and sixty SIOO eggs are hatching in the incubator. Dr. Prothero has gone to Africa to bring 125 more birds. The Trustees of a colored church at Winston, N. C.“> mortgaged the edilice excursion to Columbia. Half the amount required was deposited at Winston to the credit of the Richmond and Danville railroad. A special train was sent to Winston to draw the money and take the congregation, but it steamed back to Richmond when it was learned that the Trustees could raise no more cash. . i . \..i ; Recently, near Kalish, two Polish peasant*, blacksmiths by trade, had to settle the question which one of them should have a girl with whom both were in love. Without much ado they armed themselves with the heaviest hammers they had and began the fight. The one swung his dreadful weapon straight at the head of his antagonist, but the latter skillfully avoided the blow, and then in his turn he swung his hammer and crushed the head of his rival. He got the girl. ,

A stately and handsome man registered at a California watering-place as an English lord. With him were his wife and two daughters. They took the best rooms in the hotel, ordered extra delicacies in food and the finest wines, and in.every way common to such resorts spent money without stint. It was soon discovered that their claim to aristocracy was fraudulent, and they , departed as soon as the exposure caused a sensation of social exaltation. Rut they paid all their bills, gave tlm menials generous fees, and betrayed no other reason for the deception than a desire to be 1 lionized. In that they were fully gratified. Their identity was not ascertained, and it is only oertaiu that they possessed wealth, education, and politeness.

The new crematory in the Camp Verauo, at. Rome,, the fourth in the world at present, burned its first body recently. In Rome, the body, enveloped in a specially made shroud, rests on an iron frame, above a fire of wood and coal, and it is believed that no other method of cremation is so simple and at the same time so cheap and so unobjectionable. —The new crematory is a handsome building, in the Egyptian style, and consists of three chambers, two of which are above ground. In one of these latter the actual incineration takes place, and in the other is kept a register for the preservation of full particulars for every corpse that is burned. Beneath this room is a spa 1 cions vault, in which on shelves are ranged ornamental urns of porcelain, bronze, and silver, to contain the ashes of the dead.

A Richmond (Va.) youth infatuated with the writings of a German scientist. He spent all his spare change for material with which to make many interesting: experiments referred to in the work. Among the other curious things alleged by the great philosopher was that oysters are so fond of music that if an accordion is played near one it will open its shell and drink in the melifluent strains. The boy borrowed an instrument from the boarder in the house across the street, secured as large and intelligent an oyster as he could find in the market, and went into the parlor to try the experiment. He began by playing an air from “Pinafore” in an indifferent style, which caused his dumb auditor to wince occasionally. He then struck out boldly on the “Sweet By-and-By.” This was more than the bivalve could stand, and it flew at the boy and bit him so severely that he had to go on crutches for several days. '

Recently a train on the Northern Pacific railroad found its way apparently barred by the furious heat of burning wood-ricks along the track. The train stopped, the rails were examined to see if they had warped, and then it was decided to run the gauntlet. A passenger thus described the passage, which was made at the rate of seventy miles an hour, to a reporter of the Portland Oregonian: “We shut down the windows and closed the doors tight just before we started, but the air inside the car was like the breath from a furnace and the whole train seemed'to be on fire. The flames licked the window-glass savagely, and, although it lasted oply a few moments, it was an experience I shall never forget and never again wish founder go. I can't help but think of the terrible

danger vie passed through. If one rail of the track beneath us, having been warped by the heat, had given &waj>, we Would every one of ns have been roasted aKveT Itmakesme shudder even now.”

Julies Haas landed in Leadville a few months ago. He seemed to have no money, and went toi work at the La Plata fllttie. ~He feUJien: to $4,375,000. It seems his father was rich bankexand land-owner at Carlsruhe, Germany. Julius was somewhat dissipated, took to gambling in addition to wine and women, and was sent to France a change. He did so badly and lived so extravagantly there that his father recalled him and started him off for America with a credit of 50,000 marks. He ran through this in New York, drew an additional SIO,OOO and toured the Eakht. to Chicago “strapped,” met a family friend, and negotiated a draft for $20,000 on his father. This was too much for the old Haas, who refused to honor the draft. He then fell in with a friend, and the two organized what they called the Michigan Electric Company, issued false stock, and realized some money by that means, taking in both Chicago and St. Louis parties. He got into several close quarters afterward, narrowly escaping jail, and reached Leadville quite destitute. There he learned of liis father’s death through the newspapers, and of his immense fortune. As it is estimated that young Haas squandered $1,000,000 in three years, it will require but a little stretch of time to make him a vagabond again. —~ An eccentric Boston genius, fearing that a sufficient amount of winter sport cannot be got from the regular season, lias perfected a unique invention by means of which boys can have coasting all the year round. His device.«conrists'of an artificial hill, which may be set up in parks, gardens, commons, or, on flic sea- shore, the length being a mutter of choice or convenience, the, elevation sufficient to give the sled the requisite impetus for a jolly slide. The runway is furnished with grooves in which the runners of the sled move. The inventor, who is a compositor, by the way, makes the claim that there will be almost perfect freedom from accidents, because of-the breaks, pulleys, endless chains, and varied contrivances of the patent slide. Now this may be all very well, but it strikes us this is going it a little strong in infringment on the natural provision and accompaniments of seasons. Boston is becoming altogether too speculative on common credulity. Rut it cannot expect to gull the youth of that sacred city into the belief that winter has invaded the furnace blaze of summer because a sled is made to whi/.z down a patent hill. It is an undue attempt to take advantage of the kite and foot-ball season, and could only have rise in a mind that believes in the mental procreance of beans.

Never let tea boil. For rough hands, use lemon juice. Strong lye cleans tainted pork barrels. Tepid milk and water clean oilcloth without soap. Have as much fruit always on hand as you can afford. Turpentine applied to a cut is a preventive of lockjaw - . A hot shovel held over furniture removes white spots. Smoke dried million leaves in new clay pipe for bronchitis. SI’RiNKLK sassafras hark among dried fruit to keep out worms; Pop-corn is a good lunch for Sunday nights with milk for drink. A handful of hay in a pailful of wafer neutralizes smell of paint. To make a carpet look fresh, wipe with a damp cloth after sweeping." In sewing and winding carpet-rags double them with the right side out. Clean tea or coffee cups with scouring brick; makes them look good as new.

Remove ink stains on silk, woolen or cotton by saturating with spirits of turpentine. Cover plants with newspapers before sweeping. Also put a little ammonia upon them once a week. Washing pine floor in solution of one pound of copperas dissolved in one gallon strong lye gives oak color. Remove flower-pot stain from win-dow-sills by rubbing with tine wood ashes and rinse with clean water. A paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay and salt and a little water, cements cracks in stoves and ovens. Mixture of two parts of glycerine, one part ammonia and little rose water whitens and softens the hands! Corn-husks braided make a serviceable and handsome mat. The braids to be sewed with sack needle and twine. In teaching a child to sew, five stitches a day will be enough for the first few weeks, but let them be perfect and trae; '- " ■ •'* To cure hoarseness; Bake a lemon or sour orange for twenty minutes in a moderate oven, open at one end, dig out and eat sweetened. Cabbage is made digestible bjr first slicing and then putting in boiling water with a pinch of soda, and soma salt and boiling just fifteen minutes. Florida has seventy-one newspapers-