Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — SOMEWHAT STRANGE. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

Shi Clerk of the House has issued an officials list of members elect, by which it appears that the strength of the parties will be: Democrats, 168; Republicans, 16S; independents, A The four men classified as independents are A. R. Anderson, Iowa; John Nicholas, North Carolina; Samuel L Hopkins, Virginia, and Henry Smith, Wisconsin. The an* nexed table shows the number of Demo* •rats and Republicans, respectively from Cm several States: Dcm. Rep Dem. Bcp. * - Mtatoippi........ 7 - Ark0m*........ 6 - Minourl ..14 2 California 2 4 Nebrwka. 1 1 Colorado - 1 Newla - 1 CaunceUcat.... S 1 New Hampahlre 1 1 Mawan 1* - Newleieey 1 j BlorMa 2 - New York 11 18 Udotxia. 10 - North Caroline. 7 1 Miinot* * IS Ohio li Mknt. C 7 Oregon... - 1 Intt* 2 ft Pennsylvania... I 10 - 7 Rhode I-land.... - 2 Kentucky ft 8 South Carolina.. 7 LoaUUm - » - Tennessee I*2 Maine - 4 Texas U Maryland * 1 Vermont - * Kameehwests., i - 8 Virginia 1 • Michigan.... 8 6 West Virginia... I l Musiott...... 8 2 Wisconsin 1 7 mad...: - .. ift* is* In the event of the Presidental contest being thrown into the House the Republicans would have an advantage, having a majority in twenty States. But this event is hardly probable.

An edd pair of twins were born at the Summit County, Ohio, Infirmary, one of tbs babies being blask and the other white. “Hold this baby while I have a fight with that man,” said an East Boston woman to a sailor who had just come ashore. The ready to be entertained, took infant, and the woman took the man’s arm and walked away . An Alabama lady has a plant known as the star cactus: Its buds cannot be told from p rattlesnake’s head, and the full blown flower is like the skin of a rattlesnake; it is nearly the exact color, and is tough and leathery like it. The flower smells very bad. GUas blowers’ cheeks become thin and lose their elasticity by the contin ued blowing. They hang dorn like inverted pockets, and grow useless. It is s matter of record, it is Baid, that both in this country and.in Europe glass workers have blown holes through their cheeks. Pierre Bontempe, a laborer of Angen, in Prance, fell into a drunken sleep one afternoon, and when he awoke felt as if he had been bitten by 1,000 mosquitoes. He had been tattooed from head to foot with horrible pictures, which he has since been unable to obliterate. Marshal John Jolly, of Butte City, Montana, is the owner of the most expensive policeman’s star in the United States. It is of solid gojd and has five points. At the end of each point is a diamond costing $125, and in the center is a monogram of Mr. Jolly’s name in diamonds.

The remarkable story of a calf born •n Saturday and livingnntil the following Thursday evening, or a period of five days, without once having partaken of the lacteal fluid upon which yonng members of the kine family are supposed to exist, comes to us from Money Cheek Township, McLean County, 111. Wm. R. Jones, of Edmore, Mich., h— a horse that he sends to the depot and other places without a driver. A stranger observed him going through the town that way the other day, and tried to stop him, but the kno ving horse dodged the anxions man, and bolted away from him, and then resumed a moderate gait and made his way home to the stable to await further orders. “We find that Miss Lillie was accidentally killed by falling over a precipice while walking her sleep,” was the title verdict a jury at Barmouth, North Wales, recently rendered on the death of a young woman who, it is believed, while in asomnambulistic state, walked out of her house, and was found at the base of a cliff fifty feet high.

Comparisons Anent Men and Women Men are more enthusiastic and ready to espouse the caube of woman than her ■liter women are. Women, when their interest is finally won, are more lasting in their friendships. There is an instinctive rivalry between women which, until it is overcome by the bonds of sympathy, is a bar to true, unselfish friendship. Men expect more in return for their iavom than women do. The friendships of men noticeably decreases after a woman marries. Men are ter more agreeable to approach in any matter requiring courtesy and politeness. The friendship of women notieably strengthens after a woman marries. A good and efficient man is a better friend and adviser than a weak woman. A good and efficient woman is a better iliend and adviser than a weak man. Women are far safer and more reliable friend h in the long run. There is no role which governs the matter.—E la Wheeler Wilcox.