Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

John L Sullivan has made and spen r $300,000 in his brief lifetime. ’’’he Jamestown Kansan, is not above taking Atraw oqjjhibscription. The woman who gets but one letter A year always reads it on the street. It is estimated that in England one man in 500 gets a college education. In this glorious country one man in every 200 takes a college course. - 5 - It is hard enough, anyway, for a bachelor to hold a baby, but it is simple torture when it is the baby of the girl who jilted him heartlessly only three years before. > The Prince of Wales has been bear hunting in’Austria, but he coaid not make anything like sttch an immense bag as Old Hutch made in his bear hunt n Chicago. It is said that when Gen. Grant was :n Japan, the Japanese Premier, Prince Kung, desiring to compliment the General by telling aim that he was born to command, tried it in English with this result: “Sire, brave General, you vas made to order.” . Micah French of lowa thinks that he is the senior Tippecanoe veteran of that State, if not of the United States. He carries a British bullet in his body, shot there in 1812; voted for Monroe in 1816 and for William Henry Harrison in 1840, and expects to vote for Grandson Ben in November. At the Haymarket riot in Chicago, on May 4,1886, John Weinlte was struck in the back of the head by a pistol ball that lodged in the skull. It remained there, occasionally giving him much troubles until a few days ago, when surgeons removed it. It had been flattened into the shape of a horse’s hoof, and was completely covered with a bony growth. -Here’s a pretty tough story from New Haven: Brakeman George Loftus stood on top of a car moving over a bridge at West Haven,when a strong gust of wind lifted the roof from the car. As the roof with George on it swept under a telegraph wire, he seized the wire, made his way along it to the nearest pole and then slid to the ground unharmed. A couple spent their honeymoon at Bar Harbor. They met first on asteamer on the Atlantic Ocean; he proposed in Sweden, was accepted in Russia; obtained her father’s permission in England; the marriage settlements were drawn up in this country; they were married in Algiers and goodness knows where they are now and will be tomorrow. King Otho of Bavaria is sinking deeper and deeper in his religious mania. He remains so long in a kneeling posture as to be unable to rise without assistance. He frequently summons his priest to bis bedside at night in order to confess, and exclaims to those about him: “You do not know what sins I was guilty of yesterday. I dare not close my eyesuntil I have received absolution.” There were 19,912 patents issued last year, and of these but 1,083 were granted to Southerners. Texas led the Southern States, a patent being granted for every 4,006 Texans. Florida came next. Missippi’s ratio was one patent to every 25,146 of the population. Alabama, in spite of the recent great mechanical development of that State, was credited with but 54 inventions in the year. The New York girl, of the unimpeachable Fifth avenue variety, who stops stages by her whistle, without making the slightest fuss, is the latest advent of the kind. She is described, if she wishes to board one of those vehicles, as stopping carelessly at the curb, lifting one hand in a graceful, lazy signal to the driver, and then prettily puckering her red lips, from which she emits a shrill, musical whistle.

The first girl baby born in Denver was the daughter of a settler named Harvey, and she was born in 1860 or thereabouts. In recognition of her enterprise in being born in the camp, public spirited citizens presented her with all the land in sight of her father’s cabin. Unfortunately the taxes were never paid, and the land,how worth $2,000,000, fell into other hands. The girl who once owned it all is now a singer in a variety show in that city. An endless railway train, consisting of 400 platform cars, is to be one of the attractions at the Paris Exhibition. The lines will be sunk so that the platforms will be on a level with the surface, and the train will run slowly enough to permit'most people to step on and off while it is in motion; but for the accommodation of elderly people a stop of fifteen seconds every minute will be made. The motive power will be electricity. A Chinese tiger story: In a wild region nearKaiping is the village of Takang Taun. In a temple of Wu-ti there, there stays a man not a priest Two small holes in the door allow him to look out. The tiger came and crouched outside the door a long time. Then he put his paw through one of the holes and clawed around. Then he put his tail through and felt around for the man. The man cut the tail off with an axe. The tiger butted the door until it was knocked from its hinges and fell over on the man who had been trying to prop it up on the irfside. The tiger sprang over the door without finding the man under , it, and seizing one of the josses, which was in the form of a man, ran away with it. Next day some grass cutters on the mountain, a good distance off, found the joss lying on a lonely hillside, where it had been abandoned by the tiger, and took it back to the village.