Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT.

California sent 3,500,000 pounds of honey to Europe last year. | Paris Figaro prints a special edition in an office 500 feet up in the Eiffel tower. Paper tough as wood is said rroWTOe made by mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp in the process of manufactuteThe skeleton of the largest elephant ever killed in India is to he sent to thenraseum at Madras. It is 10 feet 6 inches high. The cultivation of pineapples is rapidly extending to southern Florida One grower will have 10,5,000 pines to ship this season. “ •’?' A farmer-hy .4he.u*roe~Gf Josh Wiggins, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who is s|prt of stock, works his boy instead of a mule. " * ; Last year the number of visitors to Shakespeai es birthplace was J 6,800, Americans constituting oue-fourth of the number. A London paper advertises: “Lady wanted to draw, at home, original designs for coffin furniture.” Cheerful employment that, very. Twenty-two cases of insanity have been brought before the fudge at Tacoma, VV. T., jsince last March, and one-haif of the cases are of persons who came frq*p the ‘east. Look out for your rubber boots. A Yale sophomore is very seriously ill in New Haven, his blood having been poisoned b.y the aniline dyes of the lining of his rubber boots. The height of snoobishness is reached at English bazars, where money is taken as the price of an introduction to this and that beauty or tilled lady presiding over tables. The supreme court of Mississippi has imposed two fines of 1250 each upon a railroad for failure to provide separate but like accommodations for the black and white races.

Of this year’s graduating class at Princeton, thirty-two will, it is said, become lawyers, twenty-one ministers, fourteen doctors, twelve business men and two newspaper men. Down in North Carolina an eleven-year-old son of the boss brick mason is earning his 12.50 a day. He is at work on the outside of the wall, where none but experts handle the trowel. The ruling passion was exemplified in a Williamsport, pa., lady who, seeing floodEtained baby clothes sold at a sacrifice, expressed regret that she hadn’t a baby te utilize the Bargains. The greatest snuff-taking country in the world is France, though it shows a decline in the habit. In 1869 the consumption was 13,000,009 pounds, or seven ounces per head. Now it is five ounces. A tramp stole a clothes line worth 25 cents from an Indiana farmer, and eighteen men turned out and pursued him forthirty miles to give him a switching. The object was to convert him to honesty. _____ > The total Indian population is less than 250,000. Of these 21,232 live in houses and 9,612 families are engaged in agriculture. And among these so-called savages there are 28,063 church members. A Mexican robber who was shot by order of the government received six bullets m his breast and got up and ran thirty rods before falling down to die. The Mexican tough is a hard chap to kill. The hotels in some of the larger Mexican cities are now run after the American fashion, except that if you kick to the landlord aboutthebugs he has the porter go up and shoot as many as he can find. A Frenchman tried his flying machine in the suburbs of Paris the other day. He flew off a barn and it will be several months before his broken legs will allow him to canter around as blithely as before. The State Geologist of West Virginia believes there are caves in -that state twice as larae as the mammoth, but the trouble i* to find them. Whenever a hunter’s foot slips into a hole he should investigate. None ot-the railroads in India run baggage cars, and no traveler is allowed to take a trunk. Whatever he carries must be bundled up, and no porter will move a bundle three feet withoit demanding ten cents. ; ' ....n: " -

A very handsome granite monument has been placed over the grave of Edward Payson Roe, the novelist, in the Cornwall village cemetery. Upon it are engraved a number of quotations from his best known works. The monument was erected by Mrs. Roe, Great Britain counts on soon having the largest dynamo In tho world. It is being made for the new electric light works at Deptford. The shaft of the machine will be turned oufof a block of steel weighing seventy-five tons, Which has just been cast in Glasgow. There are some curlotis men On the legal bench In tins country. A Connecticut court fines a man $5 for lying in wait to kill his wife and stabbing her, and an Ohio court calls it assault aud battery when four bullets are fired into a farmer and he is robbed of his wallet. A setter dog, owned by Robert Bruden, of Bristol, Pa., has just been found after having been locked up In a barn without food or water for a period of six weeks. When discovered the dog was as thin as a shingle and Unable to stand up. He, however, soon revived on being fed. The experiment of going down the Idaho mine at Grass Valley, Cal., iu submarine armor to put out the fire has been unsuccessful. Tho heat was too great and gas passed under tho helmets of the two men who descended. They reached the 900-foot level, or within 100 feet of the fire. On the lawn oFJoel Scarlett, at lCennett Square. Pa., a Tew evenings since, a circle about four feet in diameter seemed to have been scalded in the grass. On closer look it was found covered with yellowish lung!, which turned biuish-biack when the sun came out The phenomenon Ims been observed several times, and was called a •fairy circle.” A milkman nt. Pottstown, Pa., served a well-to family whose regular supply was a cent's worth or milk a day, the cent being left outside in a cup. He lost on measure, but filled tbe cup daily to oblige them. But when on a recent morning he found three cups set out with a penny in each instead of a larger vessel with three, pennies ho thought 4S time to drop the contract and drive away. A housekeeper gives the following rule for keeping ice-water: To keep ice-water in an ordinary pitcher fold several newspapers into a square which will set over and entirely cover your pitcher. Lino with canton flannel, stitching all tightly into place; cover with dark flannel (green looks cool), make a handle across tbe top to lift it by, and you find that you have a small, convenient and effective cooler.