Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1888 — SOME ODD THINGS. [ARTICLE]

SOME ODD THINGS.

The use of tobacco at Yale is decreasing’ each year, owing to the example set by the athletic associations, which do not allow their members to smoke dr chew. Gymnasiums have a wide influence over the health of collegiates. ' • » A Mrs. Smith of Grand Rapids, Mich., was recently severely injured by the sudden closing of a folding bed on which she was reclining. She was completely shut in t y the bed, and it became* necessary to pry it apart before she could be released. 7 Upward of 500,000 wreaths were placed on the graves of the Vienna Central cemetery during a recent week. These wreaths are saved and sold at auction, the iron and brass wire in them being smelted and manufactured into wire. The “wire of the dead,” as it is called, represents an average value of 80,000 florins a year. The tongue of London gossip is wagging no little over the bequest of the late duke of Rutland of his ste im yacht Lusf ra and much magnificent gold and silver plate, marked fully with the ducal crest, to one Lady Miles; of whom it is related that for years she has haa and held very many Rutland family jewels, her grace the duchess and Sir Philip Miles to the contrary notwithstanding. The people of Memphis, Tenn., had a lively experience the other day when a circus visited their town. The show was attached for debt, and two lions, a gorilla, a enamel, and several trick horses were levied upon. During the proceedings in court the gorilla got loose and ran out into the street, where he scattered the “'crowd right and left. He finally took possession of a liyery stable and held it against all comers until a visiting cow boy captured him with a lasso. Worcester lias a religious society called “Faith Home.” The members, who number a dozen only, unable to obtain spiritual satisfaction in the churches, meet every Sunday and study the Bible to suit themselves. They be lieve that they can reach perfection and an equality with Christ, and thus resist death and live an eternity on earth. To do this they believe that the body must be regenerated by means of certain mental and physical preparations. They indorse faith cures. The people of Salt Lake City are contemplating the erection of a great “salt palace.” It would be a structure that would lay in the shade all the ice and corn nalaces ever constructed. The main part of the structure could be of the finest specimens of rock salt from the quarries, chiseled, carved and artistically arranged, while the interior fitting should be of crystalized work from the lake on a grand scale. Such a palace should be permanent if properly protected from the winter rains.