Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

Mr. Gladstone declares himself to weigh 168 pounds. Americans are finding plenty of petroleum in Peru, 350 feet down. A Boston hotel locates itself by advertising that it is near Phillips Brooks’ church. The Czar ot Russia is an enthusiastic cornetist. No wonder nihilism is rampant, in Russia. As soon as the Sioux reservation is opened. a railroad will be built through it to the i Black Hills. ’ ‘ ' 1 Warner Miller says that the only thing he has received from the administration is a telegram of good wishes. There is little hope for Boulanger. He has ceased to talk. Silence in some cases is the beginning of wisdom. More books and magazines in English are now read in Paris than at any time previous in the history of the country. The foot wear artists of London do business on a small margin. The bootblack! there charge two cents a shine. j A Zanesville woman has worked on a crazy quilt an hour a day for thirteen years, and the quilt is not finished yet. i Gen. E. Burd Grubb says that he parts • his hair in the middle because he has a | cowlick. But why does he part hTs name in the middle? The London Omnibus Company have only twenty-six coaches running, and yet they carried over fifty million passengers during the year just nast. D Miss Maud Banks, -daughter of General Banks, thinks she is a success on the stage and will not retire. Self-confidence is the mother of ' Be hopeful for the race, but don’t expect io much for any one particular person. If you do you are sure to make the acquaint] ance of disappointment. | Roswell P. Flower and William Waldorf Astor ran against each other for congress some years ago. Personally they never met until a few days ago. ! The maximum power generated by an electric motor is seventy-five horse-power, but experiments indicate that 100 horsepower will soon be reached. The most widely separated points between which it is possible to send a telegram are British Columbia and New Zealand, via America and Europe, Philip Grenan. who loft this country forty years ago, is no w at the head of probably the largest stevedore business in Bombay, India, employing no less than 7,000 men. It is announced that Whitelaw Reid is a social success in Paris. He has more invitations to dine ont than he can possibly accept. This is accounted ministerial sue- ! cess, The West is about to lose one of its most prominent citizens. It is said that Buffalo I Bill has become so enamored with Paris that he will make that city his future homo. The fastest time made by an electric railway is a mile a minute by a small experimental car; the fastest time yet attained by street railway system is twenty miles an hour. The Kansas man is ever praiseful to his own state. Senator Ingalls says. When I came to Kansas it was a desert; now the l rest of the world is a desert and Kansas is an oasis." A long look ahead. A statistician estimates that in the year 1930 the United States will have a population of 1 billion. It will take a big man then to know that he is a unit. Tne statue of Captain Eads, to be erected I at St. Louis, represents him in his work | cabinet, surrounded by models, at work. I He stands with a plan in one hand, a compass in the other. A volume of the poems of Frederic Tennyson, eldest brother of the poet laureate, is among the reprints in contemplation in London. They ’ have become difficult to procureA planter at Nueva Paz, Cuba, was captured by bandits on the Bth of August and not returned to his family until the payment of a ransom variously reported at $3, - SJO to $6,000 in gold. Gen. Mahone-reads his political speeches from printed He speaks slowly and his enunciation is wonderfully clear. Though a small man physically, ho is quite impressive as an orator. . There is some doubt in the East as to whether Theodore Roosevelt belongs to the East or to Montana, but when he went to Washington the other he day he settled the question by locating himself on the hotel register as from New York. A new process for burning coal without smoke has lately been discovered. It consists in sprinkling water containing a special preparation of resin over the coal, and the result is that there is no smoke and the glow is as intense as coke. Voigtlander, a famous optician of Brunswick, has just perfected a new lens, giving a very wide angle, working with a large aperature. Thus it is very rapid, and can be used in very confined situations, such as rooms for groups and single portraits. One of the objects of curiosity at Kennebunkport, Me., is the stone house Rev. E. ‘L. Clarke, of New York, built of rocks hauled out of the sea at low tide by oxen. Rev. Mr. Clarke put on his overalls and steered the steers part of the time himselt. Tuey Gwok Ying, tho new Chinese minister to this country, is a good-looking man, about 50 years of age. He dresses in the I finest silk raiment, and spends a great deal of money. He is a constant smoker, and ! when he is not puffing a cigarette is rolling one. . ») Miss Rebbecca Fairbanks, the last of a family that came over in 1635, is said to be still living in a house at Dedham, Maas., > that was brought over in the year mentioned and located on its present site at that time. Tho Fairbanks scale man came of this Jamily. A curious and intererting exhibition will be opened in Cologne on June 1, IS9O, in ' which will be displayed an immense collets-' lection of arms, instruments, etc., serving to illustrate the art of warfare and bearing in any way on the condition of troops or armies. James McMillan is the resident director of the Cambria iron-works at Johnstown, j Pa. Fifty years agp he a pair ■ of mules on a towpath. When 22 years of age be was tho' commander of a canal-boat. He made some money on a wheat specula- ' jtion and then began to lay up a fortune. Tne wedding anniversaries are named as follows: First year, cotton wedding; second, paper; third, leather; fifth, wooden; i seventh, woolen; tenth, tin; twelfth, silk, and fine linen; fifteenth, crystal; twent eth, I chma; twenty-fifth, silver; tnirtleth, peart; I fortieth, ruby; fiftieth, golden; seventyfifth, diamond.