Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1887 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Now is the time when the manageif of fall fairs fall foul of each other. Pioche, Cal.,. is raising cucumbers three feet long and ten pounds in weight. The Denver News says the time for sending hostiles so Washington in Pullman cars is past. One reason why the homely girl takes the scholarship prize is because she Jooks into books more than into mirrors. A reymtabte Georgia journal says that a clock down there stopped the moment its owner was arrested, charged with murder, and started again without aid tfie moment he was acquitted. Mrs. Iva Richmond, of Golden, Mich., was thrown into the machinery of a a reaper that she was driving, but her life was saved by her faithful dog, that rushed forward and stopped the team. The Honolula Rifles, about half the tanding army of Kalakaua, are commanded by Colonel Volney V. Ashford, who is a Canadian by birth. He served in the war of the rebellion and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. A horse grazing on the bank of Higgiu’s lake, Michigan, saw Mrs. Charles H. Pettit and her little daughter drowning, jumped into the lake, swam out to them, made them understand they were to take his mane, and then carried them safely to the shore. Death Valley, Nevada, is to be turned into an ostrich ranch. A Mexican has fourteen Well-grown chicks that he hatched out there, at his littie ranch near the box-ax works, from eggs brought from, the neighborhood of Los Angles. The eggs were buried iiuthe hot sand, and of flights the ground was covered with blankets to retain the beat it absorbed during the day. The ranch is about 228 feet below the level of the sea. Explosions-in mines might happen occasionally owing to miners not detecting .by scent tne presence of perilous gases —anosmia, or want of the smell sense, being as dangerous in such ca-=es as col-or-blindness in the case of Signalmen. It is perfectly piaiu that to place on watch duty in any edifice where risk of fire is feared a guardian affected with anosmia, or absence of the smell sense, impracticably to speure that the tire shall not be discovered in its incipient stage, The Peruvian Indians, so Humboldt said, could discern the presence of strangers hy their odor; or tlxe Arab, who, as recorded, can detect the scent of burning at a distance of thirty miles. One of the most animated features of the Wild West show, tire lassoing of the huffaio, lias been abandoned in London* The cattle, when the lariat tightened about their necks, made a great fuss, snorting and kicking, creating the impression that they were undergoing severe bodily pain. Mr. Cody denies this, and says that the cattle and the men < were so accustomed to the performance ; that the former suffered no inconvenij ence therefrom, bat rather enjoyed it. The S. P. C. T. A., which is a very for- ! midable institution, diet not take this j view, and a warning notice was served, which, of. course, was respected This i has bad the eflect to induce laziness in Mr. Cody's buffaloes, for they do no more now than canter Rlowly around Tthe ring, and the cowboys and the Indians, who are supposed to be giving a i representation of the buffalo hunt, sometimes trouble to keepYrom running . over them. It is all, however, very ! eves.