Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — Why He Wanted It. [ARTICLE]

Why He Wanted It.

Mrs. Winks—“ This paper says that Sir Moses Monteixore, now 100 years of age, has neyer believed in early rising.” Mr. Winks—“My gracious! I want to cut that out and paste it in my hat." “You, indeed! Why, you never get up until compelled to. What do you want to paste that in your hat for?” “So the cook won’t see it”—Philadelphia Call. La-cbosse is an kneesy game children. They learn it early.

There are ho windows in the w rooms, and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are but eight feet high from floor to ceiling, the stone is so white that it seems almost transparent, aud the rooms are not at all dark.

An interesting feature of the World’s Exposition at New Orleans will be a united encampment of veterans of the war, embracing the soldiers of the Union and Confederate armies. The Board of Managers of the exposition have voted SIO,OOO for this purpose, and 1,000 tents will be constructed for the free accommodation of the veterans. The movement was organized under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic and the local association of Confederate armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee. Captain Edgar Wheeler, of Lincoln Post No. 1, G. A. R., at Topeka, Kansas, has been elected as commander of the camp. The tents will be supplemented by wooden barracks, and accommodations wil be provided for 10,000 persons.

Tee Japanese missions in Europe have just received information from their Government of the creation by Mikado of a national peerage. The list includes eleven princes, twenty-four marquesses, seventy-six counts, three hundred and twenty-four viscounts and seventy-four barons, This newlyhatched nobility will form the upper house in the future Japanese Parliament, All the members of the present Goveument and a large number of the: most trusted partisans of the Mikado have been admitted to a lower rank of nobility. The imperial decree founding the Japanese peerage is accompanied by a circular, signed by the minister of the Mikado’s household, stating upon what-basis the new aristocracy is established. It is to be hereditary in the line of male descendants; the rights of peeresses are defined, as well as those of the relative peers, and it is stipulated that the latter shall obtain" special permission from the Minister of the Imperial household in order to contract marriage or adopt children.

Gdilderland Station, New York dispatch: Fifty years ago the Jupp family, famous Hudson Valley buttermakers of that day, occupied the farm now belonging to Charles McChesney, near this station. Mrs. Jupp’s butter was always packed in peculiar shaped earthen crocks, and commanded a higher price in Albany and other markets. Before sending a crock of butter to market it was her custom to lower it into a well on the premises which was noted for its very cold water. Mrs: Jupp would leave the butter hanging in the water for several hours, and when taken out it would be as hard and cold as ice. One day in 1834 she was lowering a crock of butter into the well, when the rope broke and the crock fell to the bottom. No effort was ever made to recover it. For the first time in its history this well became almost dry during the recent long draught in this vicinity. A few days ago farmer McChesney was cleaning the well out, when he found the crock Mrs. Jupp had lost fifty years ago. In taking the crock from the well McChesuey accidentally broke it. It was one-quarter full of butter, which was as solid and sweet as it was the day it was put down, half a century ago. The crock and it contents are xm exhibition at the McChesney farm,, and hundreds have called to see them.

Paris proposes to emulate London and Now York in having steam travel witliin'its limits. This railway will be subterranean for the greater part of its length. Starting at Puteaux, the passenger will pass under the Grand Arme avenue, the external boulevards, Rome street, Boulevard Hansmann, and the great boulevards, and will not emerge into open air until he reaches the Bastile.Ho will descend about twenty-six feet to reach the cars. But the experience of New York is in favor of the elevated rather than subterranean system. All tunnels or covered ways from which air or sunlight are excluded are objectionable. There is no inter-mural travel on earth so pleasant or so cheap as that of the “Elevated” road system of New York. The business of this last company is simply prodigious. During the past year it carried nearly ninetyseven million passengers—more than all the leading trunk linos in the country. One objection to large cjties heretofore has been the great distance to be traveled in seeing friends or transacting necessary business. But these steam roads annihilate space and economize time. The period is not distant when Brooklyn and the entire region Within fifteen miles of the center of New York island will be quickly traversed as were two or three miles in times past. Steam will be superceded by, some faster motor, electricity perhaps.