Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

An oil derrick for drilling an artesian Well is a sight on Brbadway, New York. Six pounds of bullets were picked up after a police chase of a Springfield; (0.) dog. A Dakota editor got mad at a postmaster for calling his paper “second class matter.” What shall it profit a man it he eats a seventy-flve-cent dinner and then gets sea-sick.—Burdette. „ , . . The entire revenue of the postmaster of Brownsville, Kansas, last year amounted to only 55 cents. President Cleveland is said to be treatened wiih another attack of rlieumatism. He limps slightly and is somewhat irritable. ' ' _ It is said that Buffalo Bill’s share of the profits of the American exposition in London consisted of Jt70,000 and a position in “society.” There are 400 school districts in Vermont which’have less than a dozen regular scholars apiece, and the average pay of teachers is smaller than in any other Northern State.

A Michigan girl surprised a thief in the barn and chased him with a pitchfork until he drooped the harness he had stolen. It is reported that she is receiving an average of fifteen osiers. An article has been goiDg the rounds yi the press for a considerable time entitled: “How to treat your wife.” There does not seem to be any necessity for a man treating his wife at all. Let him confide the pocket-book to her custody and she can treat herself. This is about the season of the year when ball players “were never in better condition in their lives.” They remain that way until they get a slice of advance, money, alter which they are apt to be stricken with Charley-horse or go lame at any moment. Queer people are to be met with in the base ball world.

“In many animals,” sayß Nature, “structures occur without any physiological value, but it is known, also, that such structures —as, for instance, the hind legs of whales—disappear.” In moments of great excitement very large Whales used to get up on their hind legs and snort, but spouting is all that now remains of this custom. (governor Oglesby, of Illinois, began his career as a carpenter at $1.50 a day. After be had worked for some time at the bench he made a strike for the bar. After practicing law for a while he fought in the Mexican war and was one of the California gold-diggers of ’49. When he came back from digging gold he entered the political arena, and has been three times elected governor of Illinois. In China all the roads except the imperial highways are tracks over private land. The owner does all he can to restrict them. When the soil wasues down inta the road—the road is always deeper than the land—the owner digs out the road to get back his soil with interest. This makes the roads in the rainy season successions of deep puddles and over all northern China traffic is suspended for four or five months every year on account of the impassability of the roads.

When General Phil Cook was presented to Miss Winnie Davis sbe was alluded to as the “Daughter of the Confederacy.” The gallant General was led captive 4t once by her beauty and grace, and, extending his hand, said: “Miss Winnie, I am a widower, please enroll me as a candidate for tits position, of son-in-law of the Confederacy.” This sally met with a round of applause, and Colonel Hardin remarked, that there would be ons source of congratulation in marryiisg the daughter of the Confederacy—the groom would never be bothered with his mother-in-law.” The weekly publications of Dr. Talrnage’s sermons is beyond parallel. Besides the English speaking nations, including Australia and New Zealand, the sermons are regularly translated into the languages of Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Russia and India. The gentlemen having in charge the publication of these sermons says that in this country every week,thirteen million six hundred thoußaand copies of the entire sermon are printed,and about four millions in other lands, making over seventeen millions per week. A limilar arrangement is now b ing made for the publication of Dr. Lai mage’s Friday evening