Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

The total income of the charities of London last year was $21,552,000. A South Carolina rattlesnake recently captured possessed thirty-three rattles. The tax rate of Philadelphia for the ensuing year has been fixed at $1.»5 on SIOO/* A. child was recently born in Port Orange, Fla., ivith eignt grown teeth in its gums. Foreign capitalists have bought a track of land in Arkansas that contains 1110,000,0(10 feet of timber. The Western and Atlantic railroad truck, near Dalton, Ga., is haunted by a phantom locomotive. A house balked in Bwtfftle, and the patient driver sat in the buggy tine hours before the animal moved. Bonanza Flood has imported artists tc decorate the interior of his princely palace in San Francisco. Florida’s orange c>op for this year is estimated at 102,000,000. Last year’s crop was 50,000,000 oranges. Eli Rarnes, of Mendon, N. £., become afflicted with blood poisoning recently from skinning a dead horse. A canal horse, hearing a locomotive whistle in Albany, N. Y., recently, leaped in the air and fell dead from fright. The St. Louis Hcpiiblican, the leading Democratic paper df~Missouri, pronounces Frederick Douglass “ the ablest and wisest man ot his race.” A permanent exhibition building is to be one of the attractive places of...amusement in Baltimore, Md. It. is to be built of brick, marble and iron, and is to cost $500,000. * Thi; I’okohama Gkuritc declares that all efforts io introduce Christianity into Japan have been pitiablq failures, and that, the people of that < ountry regard foreign missionaries with jealous aversion. The bones of Gniteau have been removed from the army medi< al museum to the Surveyor Generui’s office, where their identity is concealed except from a few officials. The reason is that the curiosity hunters took up jsm much t'mo of the officials of the iseiUcaL m useqrn 11 sto in torfere willl 11>e work. An attempt was made to smuggle opium Tntm’SttnM?rftTR s KCO _ t»y"lrttling it In ordinary blocks of wood hollowed out and covered with a thick coat. of. oil and grease. The blocks were placed under the iran rwav of a steamer so as to support it and i ilsleml the customhoupb officers. A protruding screw exposed the fraud, and Si,out) worth of the drug was seized. < J ;