Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

A Maine judge has declared Jamaica ginger an intoxicant. A Yankee has patented a fork To hold hot corn with impunity. . The Indians of the first cantoh of the state of Jalisco, had to begin wearing pantaloons Sept. 1. Grant was the first' President who wore a full beard. Cleveland is the first President to wear a njustache. There are 10.900 milliners in New York and Brooklyn—about one bonnet builder td every fifty adult women. Fifty railroad ties, each eight feet in 4 length and six by ten inches thick, were cut from one pine Tree of Dooly county, Georgia. .... .. A Berrien Springs, Mich,, lady makes the discovery, _that gum chewing, if pursued with the energy of dispair, will get away with sea sickness every time. Little pens of metal. . Little of ink. Make the tyrant tremble And the people think.—Springfield (Mass.) rnfqp; '