Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1888 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Chicago only has three clergymen who have been settled there for twenty years or more. A Russian law forbids the use of exclamation points in newspaper articles in that country. The man who is always “putting in his oar” when other people are talking generally gets into a row. No theater in Madrid will be allowed to open its doors next winter unless it shall be lighted by electricity. The great deer range of tne country is in Northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota. The Indians slaughter great numbers of them, but the deer continue numerous. Rev. Dr. Emil G. Hirsh has been elected rabbi of his congregation on Fifth avenue, New York, for a term of ten years, at a salary of $12,000 per annum, free house rental, and a life insurance policy of $20,000. He is certainly the best paid rabbi in the world. At a College Dinner.—Benevolent bld alumnus to stiff-marfnered young man beside him in a white choker— Areyou

attending Andover Theological Seminary, or studying hero in the city? Stiffmannered young man—Neither, sir. I’m in the fertilizer business. Horace Greeley’s birthplace is to be sold for taxes. It is a little, low-studed farmhouse, with small windows and low-pitched roof, situated in Amherst, N. H. With the 129 acres of land about it, the house now belongs to Fred. Colton. It is somewhat remarkable that Greeley’s father, Zaccheus, also lost, the place through the sheriff’s aid. A Pittsburg dispatch to the New York Herald says: The trip of Dr. David Hostetter, vice president of the projected South Penn Railroad, to California, in a desperate effort to regain lost health, is being anxiously watched by life insurance companies all over the country. He is the most heavily insured man in the United States, and his death would be a big financial loss to them. The aggregate of the policies held by Dr. Hostetter is SBOO,OOO. He intended to add J200.0C0 more to this to make the sum $1,000,000 but his prolonged illness has prevented any further steps in that direction.- This vast amount of insurance is divided among the principal companies of the world, some being given sums as low as SIO,OOO. - -——- - - - •