Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

Rose Elizabeth Cleveland now publishes her own novels. Senator Ingalls is said to be engaged on a novel of Washington life. Marion Crawford, the novelist, says he can walk forty miles at a stretch. Christian science is said to have gone quite out of fashion in Philadelphia. Jay Gould has an orchid in his conservatory at Irvington that is valued at $5,001. The Grand Duke Constantine, cusino to the czar, has recently published a book Of poems. _ ... Mr. Selah Chamberlain, of Cleveland, gave his beautiful niece SIO,OOO as a wedding present An English lady has left $50,030 to be dehevoXfth \t> “ist svxts, planets and nebulae. ■ M. Barbediene. the famous bronze found•er of Paris, exhibits at the Exposition a ■clock that is valued at $70,0J0. Gen. M. C. Meigs says that we shall I e found by the census of 1890 to have 07/240,060 people id the United States. .. The Emperor of Japan has just taken possession of a new palace, furnished in European style. It cost him 84,030,003. “Frightened mouse color” is the latest fashionable shade. It is probably a little paler than the ordinary mouse color. Lady Mandeville threatens to go on the unless her father-in-law, the Duke of .Manchester, pays her husband’s debts. - Air. Edwards, United States Consul at Berlin. is a queer fellow. He is actually ♦-barged by the Germans with being too sjjoscly devoted to his duties. ' Compressed air is being used as a motive wrnyer in some of the cities of France. It has started a new industry in the manufacture of plant for th? purpose. Queen Victoria’s recent visit to Wales brings out the statistics that during her /•eign of over half a century twelve days only 'rave been spent in Ireland. . An interesting discovery is stated to have Ixfii ma le in India. This is nothing less than the lost books of Eucl.d, of which a Sanskrit translation is ?aid to have been found at Jeppore. The Alpine cow-bell has become the rage

.aimbng Visitors to Switzerland this year and enterprising dealers have flooded the bazars with miniature cow-bells in gold, silver and enamel. Max Strakosch, who brought some of the niost brilliant singers to this country that -ever left the other side of the Atlantic, is in the Home fOT. Incurables at Fordham, N. Y., a paralytic. An American system of police alarm boxes has been put up in London. A small district has been served with it as an experiment, which,if successful,will probably be repeated all over the great city. It has been estimated by men of science who have investigated the subject that the rock of Niagara is being worn away by the waters at such a rate that in a few thousand years the cataract will work up to Lake Erie; —— Mrs. E.D. E. N, Southworth,whose bloodcurdling novels thrilled our grandmothers, is still living in undiminished vigor at Yonkers, N. Y., and is now writing a novel which, it is said, will surpass all her previous works. Charles Henry Butler, who died recently in a camp near Nahma, Delta Co., Mkh., was the owner of Henry \\ ard Beecher’s place at Peekskill, known as “Boscobel.” He paid sßs,Oix) for it, but had only lived there since May.

-Riehard Watson Gildev, tho editor of the Century, is a dark, poetical, melancholy looking man. Why he should be melancholy with an income of S4J.OJJ from his magazine it is hard to understand, unless, like Byron, he thinks it poetical. .... _ Un enterprising firm has offered . the. British Government a year for the privilege of placing a soap and pill advertisement on the postage stamps, the advertisement to be put on at the time the canceling is done and by the same machine. Col. Dan Lamont is said to have acceptcd the presidency Tennessee CoaH Iron and Railway Company at a salary of 310,000 a year. Col. Lamont and ex-Sena-tor Platt, of New York, control about sl,aL the company"s. stock, and..direct Trs~affitrrs: ■ * ' Berezovaki, the Pole who tried to avenge his country's wrongs by shooting at the Czar Alexander 11. during that monarch’s visit to tho Paris exhibition of 1867, is now al white haired old convict in the French penal settlement of New Caledonia, off the coast of Australia. The queen’s inevitable bridal gift of an Indian shawl is explained by the statement that ono of her tributaries, an Indian prince, is bound by treaty to pay her an annual subsidy in which are included three pairs of tho best cashmere shawls and twelve perfect shawl goats. There are only two royal scientists living at the present time worthy of the name. One is Prince Albert, of Monaco, well known for his deep sea researches, and the other is the Archduke Ludwig Salvator, of Austria, a courageous traveler, and a by no means contemptible naturalist Sol Smith Russell’s wife is a small, intel-lectual-looking woman with a Bostonese face. She is the daughter of Mr. Adams, known to fame as "Oliver Optic.” Mr. Russell is the owner of several fine buildings in Minneapolis besides his handsome residences. He takes care of his money. Capt L. G. Shephard, commander of the revenue cutter Rush, the seizer of the Behring Sea, has been in the Revenue Marine Service since 1866, and has served through all tho grades from third lieutenant to captain. He is a native of Massachussetts and is regarded as a cool and brave officer. Emily Paxton, of .Pike county, Mo., has permission from the governor of that state to wear a man’s dress “anywhere in Missouri outside of cities of 10,0 X) inhabitants.” She works on a farm and her favorite occupation is breaking horses to harness. Of these she herself owns three and has charge of thirteen. One of the cannon used by the American colonists in 1763 in defending their settlements from the attacks of the Indian chief Pontiac, is imbedded in the foundation walls of the residence of J. Samuel Krause, of Bethlehem, Pa., where it was placed by the officersof the Moravian Church, to prevent young America from firing it off on liberty days. An enormous tarantula invaded a New York police station houso a few days ago and routed all the officers. It was finally killed with a club and when measured was found to be nine inches in circumference. It is supposed that the tarantula got in by means of some banana wagons which were housed in the station bouse yard after a raid ou some fruit peddkrs a few days previously.