Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

: The consumption of horseflesh in Berlin is increasing. Geneva is said to be the cheapest city in Europe for a permanent residence. Chinese matches are competing sharply with the Swedish product in Europe. The United States bought over $2,000,000 worth of eggs from Canada last year. Boston educators are taking great interest & a proposed manual training school. I The production of Brazilian coffee has Jeen doubled within' the last ten years. j Seeeral calculating machines received he gold medal at the Paris exposition. | According to the propaganda in Rome, hero are 248,000,000 catholics in the world. i The youngest officer in her majesty’s setrice is a second lieutenant of exactly eighteen. I it is believed that silos are going out of Aavbr in Europe, though there are still nany in use. George VV. Cable will write a book on ‘The Silent South.” He takes up the muse erf the negro. Harvard Annex is to add a course in jhotography. The girts always did have a loudness for photographs. France is not the chief duel country. Hungary takes the lead. “More light” is ivhat these countries need. I Mrs.: Southworth, who shot and killed ?ettus, has been indicted for murder. Kentucky will stand by her. I Mark Twain’s wife has written a book mder s fictitious name. The critics will be aying Mark had a hand in it — An official of the Michigan Central Railvay figures out that the steam whistles , tost the company SIB,OOO a year. Florence Marryat, the novelist, is short, thoughtful looking and impetuous manner;d. Her novels are mild mannered. B annibal Hamlin is the only living exrice president. Thurman and English, who ;ricd for the place and lost it, are still on »arth. I Tennyson has read allot Rider Haggard’s stories. That may help to account for the decline in quality of the Laureate’s ooetry. The proprietors of the Hotel Brunswick n New York have found out that gas can »e cheaply and satisfactorily utilized for the most delicate kinds of cooking. In all European countries it is common for laborers to stay ail their lives, even for veral generations, on oue farm; in many nstances they are pensioned when aged. About everything in agricultural machinery in all Europe is clumsy, heavy, roughly finished. Their grain harvesters are eviiently patterned after ours of years ago. In England there are a few high-toned land owners’ clubs, but very little if any >rganization among common farmers, nor io they support farm papers to any extent. A well-known London journalist, realizing the fact that the ordinary professions In England are greatly overcrowded is saving his eldest son educated to be a cook. A woman in Maine is defendant in a $2,XX) suit for locking up her weak-minded orcther in a dog kennel. This seems to ihow that the big sister is not always to be relied upen. Stories of Mme. Christine Nilason’s hopeless ill health have been current of late, but ;hey arc vigorously denied by her nephew, Mr. Bjorksten, who declares that her health is excellent The Chicago Tribune says the water at 5t Louis Is so bad that nothing but catfish can live In it Those wno live in glass houses should not throw stones. Even catfish can not live in the Chicago river. George Coulter, of Charleston, W. Va., while sound asleep, got out of bed at night, and swam across the river ana back again. He was carried home by some gentlemen who had seen him perform this remarkable feat Bret Harte’s son is doing fairly well financially for a young man. He draws a salary as secretary of the Dion Boucicault School of Acting and is living with anoth-I sr man's wife who has Un income of $5,000 a year. New York usually gets her hand into other people's pockots. But on the memorial arch question it seems to be ioing something on its own accounL. lt has raised about SOO,OOO. The Grant monument , fund is stationary. I ‘"’” The man in Philadelphia who has not read “Guida’s” novels and a “Life of William Penn” is not eligible for office, and the woman there who has neglected thia part of her culture is not regarded as “fit for good society.” The classic lands will never get done digging up statues. Tho most ancient statue yet discovered in Greece has been found at Tripolitza. It represents a god, seated, and resembles antique Egyptian sculpture. Recent widespread failures in the tea trade iu China have had a curious effect on ruined merchants. Five of them have taken refuge in a monastery in preference to meeting their creditors. One committed , suicide and many have disappeared. The Archduke John of Austria, desiring to earn his own living, has finally, after a very protracted and difficult effort, re i oeiv«d nertuission from the emperor to bear henceforth Cne name of John Orth. He has gone to work in an English ship yard. An Ohio paper prints the following notice under the heading “Obituaries:” “AllHam Jones, of Malta township, aged eightytoise, passed peacefully away on Tuesday last from single blessedness to matrimonial bliss, after a short, but sudden attack by Alice Blossom, a blooming widow of thirty-five.” j A syndicate of Now York capitalists have purchased the Dismal Swamp Canal in V.rginia aud North Carolina for $75,0X1 The new owners intend to rebuild the ocks ind widen and deepen the canal f-.r vessels or the largest draught, and make this route the connectine ling fro-u Chesapeake Bay with the great inland waterway of tho i Atlantic cost. A large tract of swamp land on the line of the Jacksonville Southeastern Rail- i ro.ul, ne w Manito, 111, has been recently drained. The result of the til.ng has been peculiar. In oom- I placer the roadbed of Is Lob th east-J era sunk four feet, and the ro&J was com- ; pelled to spend a large amount of mom. r in making necessary repairs. j Heavy watch ohainr, stobt enough to hang an ox w.th, are very much out of fashion and are looked x>n as vulgar, •ihe latest jewelers? edict siys: “Men's witch guards are out very Yon should have only enough length to ?o »otween Ute butlonho.e the pewse* These < tufas are, -a a -file, very l<hweighing from tan to twel.o’penayweighta.’*