Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The retail ’price of coal at Pasadena, Cal., is |25 a ton. The Marquis of Lome has determined upon a literary life. Ripe peaches were picked at Colusa, Cal., late in December. Robert Bonner, since 1859, has invested $428,325 in horse fleßh. A chair of journalism has been established at the John Hopkins University. Kentucky still heats her State House with wood fires in old-fashioned open fire-places. A great many people who are crasy to get into the social swim are drowned before they can get out. There is a mountain of coal in Wild Horse Valley, Wyoming, which has been burning for thirty years. Nature is full of wise provisions Wives do their worst cooking when they are young and irresistible. A Kansas woman wants to start a children’s rights association and make large families fashionable again. Congressman (Mover announces that he will be a candidate for Governor of Missouri on an aftti-ring platform. Oh, wotnan.lsent to lonely mu By heaven’s kindest law, Methinks there is no mn npo* The hinges ol thy jaw, --Washington Critic. There are five American ladies attached to the Italian court, all of whom have married Italian noblemen. A druggist who thought that a drachm Was equal in weight to a lachmb, When chargod by the boss For causing a loss, Replied, “I don’t care a dachmn.” * Murat Halstead told a friend in New York that he wrote privately to Governor Ogleßby arguing for clemency for the anarchists. ,

The mystery as to how Mr. O’Brien got his new pair of trousers in jail is explained. A friend visited his cell with two pairs on and gave him one. Count Von Moltke is reported to have said recentTy: T Tn my youth it Waa predicted that I should take part in three great wars I have taken part in two.” Colonel W. W. Dadlev says that Indiana Republicans will present the name of ex-Benator Harrison to the Republican Nation',! Convention as candidate for President. A manufacturer who makes tools for dehorning cattle can not produce them fast enough to meet the demand. One large stockman has been ctehorning at the rate of 2,000 per week. Ex-Governor O. M. Roberts, of Texas was married to Mrs. Kate Borden, of San Antonio, last Thursday, The groom is 70 yearsold and the bride 65 and has a large number of grand children. forbidden tbe Bavarian Franciscans to brew beer in their monasteries. The beer brewed by these friars has become

quite celebrated, and is in anch demand that its manufacture had become very extensive and lucrative. « Frank C. Haddock, the only surviving son of the late Rev. George G. Haddock, has entered upon the ministry. Prior to his lather’s tragid death he had practiced law with success, but his gifeat loss has materially changed his plans of life work.

Gommander Be theft, of the British army, who was shot by the Boers in Bouth Africa three years ago, left a wife who was a native of that country, and a child, who are now seeking recognition as his heirs in Bngland, where he left considerable property. As Inch by inch tbo magazines Are growing premature In issuing their Christmas stuff, It may be reckoned surk That ere another deeade ’s o’er ’Twill be among thejr tricks Their Christmas load for ninety-seven ' To shoot in ninatysix. Presence of Mind—Spielber (who came in late Christmas eve and forgot the stocking business) —Vot I get you mine leedle sohn? Ha! I gif you dot nise drompet you has daig sooch goot care ohs since der lasd Crisdmas. Yon be'a goot boy dis year, und you get him again nexd years! The effort to organize the New Eng land shoe manufacturers iilto an association to oppose their workmen has not met with cordial co-operation everywhere. At Lynn, one-third of the manufacturers remain oat. The lasters in New England have asked for a 20 Der cent, advance. The last-makers say trade is duller than ever before known.

It is permissible now for ladies to appear in the streets with cats. They must be shaggy, long haired Angora cats as big as fat pugs, and costing more than a thousand ordinary back yard cats would fetch. They are decked with collars and carried in the arms, because no matter how aristocratic and costly a cat is, it will not suffer itself to he led by a string. The latest charity established by the benevolent people of London, England, is a “Refuge” in the neighborhood of the docks, where men who are out of employment, and are endeavoring to obtain it, can find shelter for a night with supper and breakfast. A similar institution has been supported in Dublin for more tlfian forty years, and has given shelter to 45,000 person annually. When Gladstone was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a deputation of brewers waited on him to remind him of the loss the revenue would sustain by any further restrictions on the liquor traffic. His reply was: “Gentlemen,you need not give yourselves any trouble about the revenue. The question of revenue must never Btand in the way of needed reforms. Besides, with a sober population, not wasting their earnings, I will know where to get my revenue.”

The canvassers who are taking orders for the Trust meet with queer experiences. The other day when one applied [to a German woman for a contract she wanted to know “how gas sold by the quart.” Another person insisted on seeing a sample before he would order. Still another wanted to be convinced that it was not wicked to burn gas which the Lord had created and placed in the earth for some purpose not set forth in Holy Writ. —Indianapolis News. Eight years ago Elizabeth Stuart Phelps built a little cottage for a summer home near Gloucester Harbour, England. She saw the misery intemperance brought to the homes of the fisherihen’B families and at once determined to remove it. She personally visited the men in the neighborhood and asked them to sign the pledge. Through her efforts a Reform Club was sustained and a club room opened, where music, sermons and . addresses soon won the men from the saloons.