Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — SOME ODD THINGS. [ARTICLE]

SOME ODD THINGS.

An attempt has been made to have the historic gallows tree on Hampstead heath cut down. Emperor Frederick died within thirty feet of where he was born, and at exactly the same hour of the day. A six-ton cab, carrying an electric battery strong enough to run it forty miles, recently made a satisfactory trip through London. Recently a disgusted Oshkosh, Wis., juryman offered to pay the sum in dispute if the claimant would dismiss the case. The offer was refused. The lumber from which the gallows was constructed on which John Brown was executed is owned by a resident of Harper’s Ferry, who is waiting for some relic hunter to come and take it off his hands. The modest sum of $1,500 is asked for it. Sinking mountain, located four miles from Tallulah Falls, Ga,, on the river Chattooga, is a great phenomena in nature which scientists can not explain. It sinks imperceptibly all the time, but on the occurence of an earthquake, even in the remotest part of the world, it sinks instantly from one to six feet. V

There are a number of warm sulphur springs in Elsinore, Cal., and a citizen of that town is utilizing them for in cubating purposes. He puts a tin pail full of eggs in a spring whose temperature is 102 degrees, and in three weeks the chicks come out. As the temperature of the spring does not vary the eggs require no attention. This beats the patent incubators all hollow, A young man, about 20 years of age, dressed in the height of fashion, was arrested at Erastina, S. 1., Thursday, while throwing aw’ay money to a crowd who surrounded him. He told a policeman that he had more cash than he could conveniently spend. He was the son of a wealthy contractor of Washington, D. C., and said his father had allowed him a vacation of two weeks and had supplied him with money! He w’as fined $3. Recently a gentleman who was traveling in Switzerland found a veritable curiosity in a museum in the little town of Soleure. It was a bird’s nest made of imperfect watch springs which had been trown out of the little watch factories which abound in that district. Some bird considered them excellent material of which to construct her nest, and with infinite care worked them together,into as perfect a structure of the kind as one could desire to see.

At Canton, Me., a pair of robins and a pair of spatrows each had a nest and a brood of young in the shrubbery near Nahum Moore’s front door. A crow destroyed the young robins and the mate who defended them, leaving the young mother disconsolate and in pitiful mourning. Soon after it wad discovered that the robin mother was brooding the" young sparrows, bestowing upon them the tenderest care, while the elder sparrows bring food and guard the home. Thus these happy ralations seem to continue without ajar, as though the three attendants were a common necessity in rearing the family.