Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1889 — SUPERFICIAL SURVEY. [ARTICLE]

SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

A vessel has bean built at Belfast, Ireland, 562 feet long. * New Jersey** annual crop of oysters i« valued at 12,001,000. Rain has almost rained the Hudson River Valley grape crop. English capitalists are trying to buy breweries in Germany. Representatives of 270,000 miners demand 8 hours in a day’s work. St Louis is to have an elevated railroad 17 miles long to cost 87,000,000. Of New York city’s 1,500,000 people, 1,100,000 live in tenement houses. New York- school book publishers deny that they have formed a “trust" Rochester, N. Y., fines milk dealers $25 or 25 days in prison for adulteration. •‘The Angelua" picture has finally been sold to an American society for $116,000. The Sunday closing movement in Baltlmore is causing considerable excitement; ?

An ice trust, to control the manufacture and sale of artificial ice in the south has been formed. Cattlemen report that the Texas fever is playing havoc among the cattle in the Indian territory. < ■ Earnest efforts are again being made m the New York wholesale drag trade to organize a drug exchange. A monument costing $200,000, erected to the Pilgrim Fathers, was dedicated at Plymouth, Mass., last week. The new postal cards are to be made in three sizes, one smaller, one larger and one the same size as the present one. The ranks of the Knights of Labor are to be swelled by the 90,000 tailors and Cloth-, ing cutters of the United States. America is not given to jewelry, gauds or trappings, but those familiar with the business say that she has a seal ring. Natural gas has been struck in Buffalo, N. Y. Experts believe there is sufficient gaa underlying the city to supply its wants. In New York city 50,000 persons walk the streets at night for want of a home, and as many more are not sure of their breakfast. A Nebraska justice has discharged a man accused of stealing an umbrella on a rainy day, on the ground that he acted in selfdefense. Tho train robber does not always work single handed when he uncouples, nor does he always “go broke” when he puts down the crakes. Emma Abbott has ordered a $4,000 gown in Paris. This may not affect the quality of her low notes, but it will make her more high toned.

A man named Gabriel, living at Monterey, Cal., claims to ba 150 years old. The Gabriel family has a weekness for blowing its own horn. The newspapers of tbe United States owe an apology to A. Bentley Worthington. Many of them have credited him with less wives than he has. Queen Victoria has been appointed to the command of the First Dragoon Guards of Berlin. The troops will be at once instructed in the broom drill. The product of pig iron in Alabama for the first six months of this year was 396,346 tons, against 193,696 tons for the same period of last year. The judge of probate of Candor, D. T., lias disappeared with a large amount of the people’s cash. Candor will compel him to return, if he is found. The forest fires which have been raging in Montana have destroyed timber and other property to the amount of several hundred thousand dollars. Massachusetts factory laws are being enforced. Children are not allowed to clean the machines, and girls must tie up their hair to avoid being scalped. 1 A man in Chicago threatens suicide if that city does not prove to be larger than Brooklyn. His fellow-citizens do not care what he does, it he will only live long enough to be counted. |

An Arkansas hermit with a criminal record is guarded by six dogs and six goats. Any man of experience would prefer to meet all six of the dogs rather than one of the goats. The number of cigarettes manufactured last year was 2,150,000,000, nearly 300,000,009 more than during the previous year. Reports as to the mortality of the year are awaited with interest Tbe undertakers fear that they cannot live if the Brown-Sequard experiment becomes a demonstrated success. In that case let them take the Brown-Sequard treatment and they cannot die. —— Great Britain is negotiating a commercial treaty with Japan,, by which the whole interior of Japan is to be opened to British trade, and Great Britain will surrender the present judicial privileges of her subjects in Japan. The brightest of English magazines have but small circulations compared with those of America. Tbe New Review, into which Archibald Graves is putting so much energy, starts off with only twenty-five thousand copies. It is stated that the fossilized hand of a gigantic man recently found at Kearney, Neb., being broken open, was found to contain a number of diamonds. Perhaps he ’ held too many for the others in the game, and hence is a fossil. The University of Oxford commands facilities for printing in 150 languages. Just how many languages the editor commands when speaking of the proof-reader is not stated. Fifteen thousand would be about the comparative figure. The ice cream terror is reported to have given place to a new and even more formidable obstacle to the happiness ot young men at tbe summer resorts. It is all the style now for young gallants to buy little balloons to match their young ladies’ dresses.

One of the best tributes te the regard in which women are held is found in the fact that men, the world over, revolt at the thought of hanging one of that sex, even though she may have committed murder. This feeling is so strong -in England that Mrs. Maybrick may escape the full penalty of the law. Italian women who land at Castle Gardea do not generally wear bustles, but Maria Vincenz Chiara Carrichina was observed to have one on the other day and to be rather anxious about it. She was therefore invited to step into the office, where a female inspector, whose curiosity had been excited, proceeded to explore the uncommon ' appendage. Her search was rewarded by the discovery of five gold chains, thirtythree pairs of kid gloves, two gold-mounted smelling bottles, two silver watch chains, nine gold finger rings, five gold pendants, and five pairs of gold earrings. The jewelry was confiscated, and blgnorina Carrichina held to answer the charge of smuggling.

THE RE PUBLICAN Thursday, October 3,1889.