Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — SOME ODD THINGS. [ARTICLE]

SOME ODD THINGS.

For 120 years China has not been without a rebellion in some portion of the empire. z ; From recent experiments in England tis found that a tortoise can walk a mile in four hours. ’* The largest in the world is being built in London for Sydney. .It will cost about $75,000. < ~ A Brooklyn cat got into the store of an oyster dealer one night last week and devoured eight quarts of oysters. John M. Goring of Wappinger’s Falls, N. Y., has a sage palm 150 years old and owned originally by George Washington. Portuguese sailors have a custom of dressing their ship in mourning of Friday and of hanging an effigy of Judas at the mast-head.

There are forty-two firms engaged in the manufacture of chewing gum in the .United States, and the value of the product isl over $10,000,000. Telegraph operators are developing a new disease which causes the finger nails to drop off. It is supposed to be hammering of the keys with the fingers. A tame crow belonging to a farmer near Eidgeway, Ontario, has been taught to distinguish colors and will pick out from a pile of articles of various colors one of any color asked for. g Near Davison Station, Genessee county, Mich., a flowing well was struck recently on a farm. After being piped it flowed steadily for two days, ana since then has only discharged water in the afternoons.