Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT.

Kentucky raises 300,000,000 pounds of tobacco every year, half the crop of the United States. A little girl In OrvinwviUe, Ky., choked to death after swallowing a grain of corn, which lodged in her throat. According to an exchange, the number of churches burned last year was 182, and all but twelve of them took lire from their own furnaces. No one in Jamaica drinks Jamaica rum. Americans whet, have seen It made allege , that common dishwater is a royal drink compared to it. Fourteen thousand girls are attending the London school Board Cookery centers. Still further facilities for increasing this number are now being made. The New Hampshire girl who drank chalkwater to make her look Dale fooled the doctors nicely. It took two post-mor-tema to tell what she died of. Base ball is going up in the world. An American scutptor has a statue under that title in the Paris salon, representing a young man in the aot of throwing a ball One of the sad things connected with tbs hard times in Persia is the fact that .many men with from fifteen to twenty-five wives have had to reduce the number to three or four. Lebanon, Conn., refuses to accept tho old homestead of her revolutionary governor as s free gift, because the tuxes on it are £3 per year and the town would have to pay them. Some ingenious arithmetician has calculated that the 30,003,000 stamps issued by the English postofflee from 18-10 to 1831, if placed end to end, would reach to the moou and back. Turks and Arabs and dancing bears have become so numerous in the south that the cities and towns are passing special ordinances to deal with them and make all hands dance. A man at Hamilton. Ohio, had an old building torn down and all the nails saved, and when he got through and figured up ne found that they had cost him 3J cents per pound. New York restaurants must make 103 per cent profit on all meats and provisions even to pay current expenses, and the other fifty per cent is added to encourage the proprietor. No less than four doctors will be always on duty at the Paris exhibition, and will be found, when wanted, at the fixed points at which it has bean arranged to post them. When pigs in clover fell upon the London market it cost a shilling. A week afterward it came down to 0 pence, and to-day it is being, sold like wildfire in the streets at a penny. The story that the electric light on the Eiffel tower “makes all Paris as light as day” was originated by a boss liar. Ten thousund electric lights would not accomplish that end. Tho site for the Washington zoological garden has been established two mites from tho White House, and all are agreed that this is a safe distance. Each end of tno line will draw its own crowd. The bite of the Georgia rattlesnake on a hot day kills in twenty to thirty minutes, unless a remedy is at hand, and whoever saw a Georgian slashing around without Jiis remedy for bites of all sorts! At the rate the population of Norway is now leaving that country for the United States not one wilt bo left there in fifteen years, and the world can uso the vacant spaces for cold storage purposes. Leprosy is increasing in Russia. During the last ten years forty-nine patients vrri treated in the St. Petersburg hospitals, ha.i of whom were natives of tho city. The Baltic provinces suffer most from the disease. Sewing circles down in Maine mean something. One at Somesville. Mount Desert, has bought an organ for the church, provided a hearse, built sidewalks, and raised SSOO to put an iron fence around the cemetery.

A steamer sailed tor Italy the other day which had twenty-eight Italians among the passengers, wl«e were going homo with from fB,tK)o to SI~,QQD apieee, all made in this country Dorn the hand oi-gan and the “bananio.” Mrs. True, of Rhode Island, had the baking powder on tho pantry shelf and tho rough on rats down cellar, and how she got ’em transposed and used the latter for biscuits is a great mystery to her. Only two of tho family. Some Swiss engineers are planning an aerial railway by which they propose to connect two of the peaks or Mount Pilatus with wire ropes about two thousand feot long, and to send tourists from summit to summit in cars sliding along the wires, Hereafter women will be admitted to the Hartford Tneologioal Seminary on the same terms as men. ThU action had been taken by the trustees to meet the needs of women who desire to prepare themselves for Christian work elth r at home or •broad. The hygroscopic quality of table salt, and its tendency to pack together in cruets and containers, may be entirely overcome by thoroughly drying tho salt and intimately mingling it with a small percentage of dry corn starch or arrow root Prom eight to ten por cent is amply sufficient for the most humid atmosphere(as on thu sea coast), while a much less percentage of ths starch la sufficient for inland points. In a large portion of Europe, from one half to two-thirds of the population Is crowded into cities. In tne United States, the older states exhibit similar conditions. Leaving out the towns of less than 4,0J0 inhabitants, the ratio for Massachusetts ia sixty-six per cent, Connecticut and New York ttfty-four per cent, New Jersey lL'tytwo percent., and Pennsylvania thirty-nine per eent constitute the urban population. A process of preserving tho oolors of flowers in dried specimens, ss used ia Berlin, consists in steeping the plants in a solution of sulphurous acid containing onefourth of Its volume of methylated spirit. Delicate flowers require an immersion of but live or ton minutes, and thick lenyeo no much ss twenty-four hours. They are |hen removed, the fluid is allowed to evaporator and tao leaves are dried between papa.- in the usual way. The fire at Seattle was far mar* estopsive than the great conflagration fa Its it val. Tacoma, last winter., Seattle's handsome business blocks were all on ooa side of the main business street, and they area mass of ruins. The toes on the opposite side will be in reality a gain, as tho buildings were frame shanties, and the owners would neither build nor sell, thslr rents being extremtiy proJtable Qn this street the p. leu pc.- foo; was twice SB high as fa the bost portion of Deavar,