Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — WINCED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINCED MISSILES.

Emile Zola does most of his work after midnight He might better be sleeping.' Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is very , much hurt because he has not had the grip. ! Engagement rings are in danger. The padlock bracelets are trying to supplant them. .. . . ‘ ■ . ! Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain boasts that she is more in debt than any woman in Europe. John Thompson, of Williamsport sufferfcd from an attack of hiccoughs which lasted for a week. Prince Bismarck has a presentiment that he will reach the age of the late Emperor William. The Welsh for beer is cwrw. Patti does not speak Welsh, but they say she can say “cwrw” very sweetly. If Benjamin F. Butler’s good taste were as great as the bitterness of his tongue he would be a more popular mao. There are 300,003 telephones in this conn try. Rents are high and dividends, are large. Success is success. They tell of a man out in California who has green whiskers. In his case, and his dying would be permissible. There are said to be more than 400 iron furnaces in the Southwest. A quarter of a century ago there were none. “We growl” Mary Anderson is at Nice, France. She spends part of the day in resting and the remainder iu denying that she is engaged While digging in his ear with a pin Charles Mowers, of Shippensburg, Pa., did himself an injury which resulted in lockjaw. - In money matters Lotta is always sue-# cessful. She has the money making talent. Her hotel in Boston is the best paying one there.

Leopold Arends invented the system of shorthand known by his name. A monument has just been erected to his memory in Berlin. If Henry Chadwick, the father of base ball should die he would; probably get a monument before the one to grant is finished in New York. English syndicates come here and American syndicates go abroad. All of the Jamaica railways have been taken by an American syndicate. New York is going to have a new hotel ten stories high. People who like to sleep away above the exhalations of the earth can be accommodated. Senator Stanford has his millions, but be is one of the plainest and most unassuming of men. However, he knows where and how to make money talk. The Pope has changed his habits. He now devotes the time between half-past five and ten at night for the araent perusal of newspapers of all nations. There are fifty manufactories of imitation butter in Germany. A factory in Mannheim produces daily 6,000 pounds from a preparation of cocoanuts. It is said that the Prince of Wales likes the Duke of Fife. This is satisfactory. The prince has been obliged to give up his toots and so finds relief in Fife. Antrim, N. H., with a population of about 1,300 boasts of four nonogenarians and twenty-five octogenarians. Twentyone of these twenty-nine old people are women. There would seem to be no excuse for one being without a Bible on the ground of scarcity of the article. The Bible House of New York has issued since list April 725,000 Bibles. Richard Brown, a well known iron man of Youngstown, 0., has discovered two forged nates bearing his signature, one for $5,000 and one for $30,000. He has no idea of the forger’s identity. Tennyson recently wrote in a letter to a New York friend: “I think it wisest in a man to do his work in the world as quietly and as well as he can, without much heeding the praise or dispraise. The moral philosophy of the Philadelphia Inquirer osiers this definition: “The moral coward is a man who cannot do anything original without asking the world’s pardon for running off the track.” The Atchison Daily Champion says that cob pipes mode into breastpins are becomiing fashionable among Atchison’s youDg women. The next fashion will probably be a plug of oxidized tobacco for shoe buckles. There is a great boom in phosphate lands in southern Florida, and many poor men have become *ich by the sale of their farms to speculators. One man is reported to have refused $2,000,1.03 for a tract of land held by him. They had a banquet at Spokane Falls the other night. It was not a “dry banquet.” The reporter who uttended closed his account of the affair by saying, “It is not distinctly remembered who made tho last speech.” It is claimed that phosphate is found in pnly three places throughout the United States—South Carolina, New Mexico and Florida. In New Mexico it is about exhausted, while in Florida it is more extensive than in South Carolina and assays 25 per cent more.

Maz O’Rell admires the Irish. Being askdd if he had written a book on tho Irish ho replied: *T like to write about the faults of the people. Tho people of Ireland have no faults. Did I try to find them! Yos, I spent a week or more in the land that has sent so many sons here.” St. Paul comes up with the statement that in 1889 it spent 10 million dollars for new houses. Now that St. Paul is on record, Minneapolis will claim to have expended 11 million dollars. The Twin city that makes the first statement is the one that always gets left. Rivalry may makefigures lie. > It is not good form to be too gay|and gaudy. Mrs. William Astor, the leader of New York society, recently said that well bred American women are dressing more and more plainly every year in public places. “Jewels,” she thinks, “should never be worn before evening and never on the street” The oldest living criminal in the United States Is John Mount of Covington, Ky, He was a good doe in bis days, He is now nearly ninety years of age, and fifty six years of his life have been spent in various penitentiaries in the United States. Re has committed almost every crime except that of murder. He is living a very sedud • ed life at present and seldom goes on tha streets. The Pekin Gazette, or gazette of the capital, as its name literally means, appears In two editions, one written and one printed, dally, with the exception of festival days. The written edition, which has to be cat in wood, an operation which takes a wwm later. Oaly the most important news is given In the written edition, the other publiahea Hquite fully. 4 _ r "* ~f\