Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1889 — Brief but Interesting. [ARTICLE]

Brief but Interesting.

Joseph Sutherland, who was a powdermonkey on board the vessel which first brought to England the news of Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar, has just attained his one hundredth year at Milton, Sittingbourne, England. He has good health and has all his faculties intact. The making of leaden soldiers is an industry centered in Nuremburg, and employing about eight hundred people. A long war brought out the toy at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and artists were employed to make lead eoldierß faithful representations of regiments and countries. And the industry prospers more in times of war. M. Ungerer believes that flowers and the perfumes distilled from them have a salutary influence on the constitution. He says that residence in a perfumed atmosphere forms a protection from pulmonary affections and arrests the development of phthisis. He adds that in the town of LaGrasae, where the making of perfumes is largely carried on, phthisis is rare, thanks totheodorous vapors exhaled from the distilleries. A new system oi electric alarms has been fitted up in the British Museum. Pulls are so arranged throughout the building that upon any alarm of danger Dy fire or dynamiters, Ac., being given not only are the police and fireman informed of the situation from which the alarm is given, but by an automatic relay an alarm is also given at all the entrances and in the principal librarian’s house, so that precautions could be at once taken by the police to prevent the escape of any suspicious visitors.

A husbandman is not always a husband. F. J, CHENEY <t CO., Toledo. 0., Propre. of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, offer SIOO reward for any case of catarrh that can not be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists. 75c. It is reported in Bt. Petersburg that during the Shah’s visit there, a secret treaty was made between Russia and Persia for the temporary annexation of Northern Persia to Russia, in certain cases.

Two friends in youth met on the etreeta of Waterbury, Conn., a few day ago for the first time in seventy years.