Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

A scheme is on foot to construct ars B road up the Jungfrau. Louisiana is becoming a very imports B| sugar and lumber state. n The Union Pacific is building a new id: BH Southward through Utah. BH The average life of an ocean cable, as ; Hi present constructed, is twelve years. H| More business men and fewer la wye Bm Only policemen and stars are allowed shoot on the streets of a well-regnlate city. m The Canadian government has subsidize B§ a steamship line between Vancouver China. |||| A tailor requires many yards tojeover H| man, but a burglar will cover bim with H small revolver. H Over 1,000 cars of Ohio grapes have bee shipped this year to points west of th^H Rocky Mountains. jjl There is a good deal of sense in the ol< sea proverb: “He that embarks with thH devil must sail with him.” fl| The Pacific Coast is becoming a grea Hj manufacturing section. Taousanls of JagH anese are arriving there. H Ex- Congressman Stephen F. Wilson, o I Wellsboro, Pa., has built for himself cH granite tomb in shape of a log cabin. H It is said that Nontaafa do©9 not blarniH Germany for not recognizing him, for he H hardly Knows himself with trousers on. H Wine is one of the staple products of H France. Over 7 millions of the people H there are engaged in cultivating the vine. H English syndicates have invade! the Aus H tnan empire, and are buying up breweries H in Bohemia, and printing offices in Vienna. H There is talk of negro colonization on a H large scale in Mexico. White labor is H gradually crowding black labor out in the fl South. ■ ' ' B There is considerable “helloing” going B on in this country all the time. About 300,- B 000 telephones are in use in the United B States, B

j Rev. Dr. William H. Furness, of Phila- I delphia, although over ninety years old, can I ■till make a glowing address when he gets I , warmed up. I Jay Gould is being done” by a portraitll artist in New York. The wits are remark- II ing that it is the first time that one haafl • beenuble to him up.” j | The tallest smoke stack in America is at II Fall River, Mass. It is 340 feet high. The II tallest chimney in the world is at Paisley, II Scotland: it is 500 feet high. I One of the results of the French exhibi- j| tion has been to make the London hansom jl cab very popular in Paris where it haa-jl hitherto been in no special favor. I The French Government is having rifles 1 turned out for the army at the rate of 1,000 1 per day. The rifle sends a small bullet I I through 15 inches of solid oak at 2:20 yards. I A South Bethlehem (Pa) liveryman has I learned a bit of wisdom expensively. The | woman for whom he left his family and I business left him in turn, and with S3OO of I his cash. * | A number of English subscribers have re- I solved to build a monument at Fort Ticon- I deroga to tho memory of Lord Howe, whoss I forgotten grave was discovered there somi weeks ago. The brain of the country are going into business instead of law, and that profession is going down hill. Technical schools are attracting thousands of young meii of the best families. The Russian emperor, as he grows older, becomes in appearance more and more like 1 a typical Cossack;.colossal in figure, entirely bald flat-nosed. and enormously-must- 1 ached and bearded. There is a little hill in Queensland, only a few hundred feeth’gh, which is attracting well-deserved notice, because it has made Queensland the greatest gold-produc-ing colony in Australia. At Plant City, Fla., there has been found what seems to be a half or;mga-with a , smooth skin and a half lemon with a rough skin, the latter being a little larger, growing together as one fruit. Dr. J. Milton Bowers, of San Francisco, who three years ago was sentenced to death for poisoning his wife has _brought suit—against three insurance companies for sll,IKK) insurance on her life. The railroad companio3 are doing quite well; earnings are better than a year ago; freight is plontier than cars and locomotives, and the car-builder 4 are in many places working at night to catch up. There have been iwo springs discovered iq Bramweil, W. Va., which are only about fifteen feet apart, the water of one of which is colder than ice, if possible, while tho othalmost reaches a boiling temperature. American wild turkeys have been successfully acclimatized in Austria on that portion of the estate of Count Breuner which is known as the Danubian meadows, and great flocks of them are to be seen in his forests. A ramie company with a capital of $1,000,000 has been organized at Philadelphia to encourage the cultivation of ramie and to build machines for the decortication of tho fibre on the plantations, and to establish mills to bleach and spin the product The king of Siam is a magnificent object in state attire. He glistens from head to foot with jewels worth more than $1,000,000. It is commonly reported in Bangkok that ho has 3 X) wives and eighty-seven children, though the exact figures have never been given to his subjects. A minister of the gospel, a son of a prominent minister of Lexington, Ky. f is attempting the extraordinary task of committing the entire New Testament to mem- . ory. He has been working on it for years, and, as he has a wonderfully retentive brain, the work is in a fair way to early completion. A Parisian architect, proud of his magnetic powers, sent the bonne amU of one of bis friends to sleep the other day, and could not rouse her. Two hours’ har-J work by a chemist were necessary-to bring her to consciousness, and then tho amateur mesmerizer and his friends found theinsolves in custody. The most notable incident during the Queen's autumn sojourn at Balmoral baa been her return to the Glassalt Shiel, where she has twice dined and slept, for the first time lor seven years. The Shiel had pot previously been visited by the Queen since the death of John Brown, at whose instigation it was built. Cheap Bessemer steel, costing a row cents a pound, can, by a simple process, be transformed into a high grade, firsts class steel, so hard that drills cannot penetrate It Made into annor plate, heavy shot cannot go through it Thy hardness of this steel can be graduated; that is, made exceedingly hard on lhe;outsida of the armor plate, and as it foes in, made soften