Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1890 — SUPERFICIAL SURVEY. [ARTICLE]

SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

The postmaster of Owosso, Mich., has been so pestered by local dudes gossiping with his pretty clerks taat he has placed over each window a printed card which reads: “This window for P. O. business only; not for visiting.” The Boston Transcript says: “Silence is golden; but it is (he other man’s silence that is meant” That is true. Carlyle was always preaching silence, and yet he was forever screeching at the top of his voice. Richard Stahl has had considerable matrimonial experience. He has been married three times, divorced twice, sued for fQimony once. He is going to market bis experience, and is composing a “wedding march.” Ralph Disraeli, a brother of Lord Beaponsfield, has retired, at the age of eighty, after fifty years of public service, from, the pffioeof deputy clerk of the parliaments, to whioh he was appointed by Lord Beaconsfieid.

It has been asserted that ohewing wooden toothpicks sometimes produces small ulcers in the mouth, and that even the stomach has been similarly affected by the action of the small particles of wood detached by chewing. The discovery of uranium at the Union Mines, Cornwall, was announced several mouths ago. This is believed to be the only known lode of that metal in the world, ns it has previously been found only in pockets and patches. Count Herbert Bismarck, during bis sojurn in the Orient, learned a new proverb, which he repeated in a recent speech: “There are three things with which no man should play—the lire, because it can burn him; the viper, became it can sting him; a woman, because she can love him.” An advertisement was printed in a New York paper calling for a “bank burglar, first class, must have Slone time,’ and be •well up’ in nitroglycerine and other modern explosives,” to call at 1115 Broadway at 3p. m. One was found who filled the bill. He was wanted by a theatrical troupe. Edwin Booth has sent a check for 11,000 to the Vincent Hospital, at Boston, an institution for the relief of working women and girls, established under the patronage of Trinity church as a memorial of the late Mrs. J. R. Vincent, for many years an esteemed and accomplished actress of the Boston Museum company. ‘ Prom the wallet of a murderer, robber

and burglar recently captured in New York was taken a slip of paper on which was written: “Keep good company or pone.” “Honesty is the best policy.” “Drink leads to ruin.” “Honor thy father and thy mother." “Civility costs nothing.” “Do not mock at sacred things.” The use of nitro-glycerino in cases of emergency instead of alcohol is recommended by an English physician. A drop on the tongue rouses a fainting man, and it may restore life in the case of apparent death, as from drowning. It has quickly relieved headache, heart pains and asthma and strengthened weak pulse in fevers.

A fanner In Palmer township, Northampton County, Pa., was told by a “powwow” doctor that if he would go to his barn at midnight and make a racket with the frail and threshing machine it would scare all the rats out of the place. He made the racket, and alarmed the neighbors, who turned out to ascertain the cause of the noise.

Clot Bey, tho founder of modern medicine in Egypt, says that it requires as much surgery to kill one Egyptian as seven Europeans, and there is no doubt that Egyptians bear surgical operations with extraordinary pluck and success. A man la a native hospital who has had his thigh amputated at 2 o'clock is sitting up and quite lively at (5. A sensation was caused iu London by the finding of the Countess Carlotty, the English widow of a deceased French nobleman, dead in her chair. The unfortunate woman was hugging in her arms a bag containing $16,000 in gold at the very moment when she was dying of insufficient nutrition, being too miserly to purchase the food that she needed to keep her alive. ~ tfie W, Y., powder mills there is great activity just now, and the mills are turning out large quantities of rifle sporting powder. Peas, instead of charcoal, enter into the composition of this brand, and the roaster in which they are prepared is capable of roasting a ton of peas every twenty-four hours. Peas thus prepared are also scut to the Newburg mills, which are making the same kind of powder. A curious connection between the color and the auditory sense has been observed by Dr. Albertine. He has discovered that persons suffering from daltonism, that is, color-blindness to certain hues, have a corresponding deafness to certain musical notea. Special instances are given. Foi example, a person not having the sensation of red cannot distinguish the note sol, a person blind to green cannot recognize er, nor can the notes be produced by the voice.

Miss Harriet Vernon is paid $350 a week for playing the hero in “Jack and the Beanstalk,” which has proved the great London sucoess this season. The manager of Drury Lane has spent SIOO,OOO in patting this pantomine on the stage. More than one thousand rich and expensive costumes are worn in the piece, costing over $36,000. The play is said to possess no literary merit whatever, and the wit to be old and commonplace, but it is the fashion and all London is running after it. Dabney Jones gives the following account of the Hessian fly. He says that hit father, who fought in the Revolutionary war, told him that when tho army was disbanded by Washington a number of Hessians remained in this country, and being of a restless, nomadic temperament din tributed themselves pretty generally, some of them drifting down to Carolina. The next year they sent to the Fatherland foi wheat to plant, and when the wheat cam< up the fly appeared, so that the larvae oi the fly must have been brought over iu tbt wheat

Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, in lecture before the Qeograflske Selskab at Ghriat'ahia, explaining his {dans for I north pole expedition, advocated the em ploy men t of a ship built with a special view to strength, and having its sides con atrncted at inch an angle that instead c being crushed by the ice the vessel will t raised by it. The route proposed by t)i Nansen is through the Behring Strait' where advantage is to be taken of th favorable current to carry the vessel north ward and thus attempt to reach the Nev Siberian Islands as soon as possible. Hen the vessel would enter the ice floes am would proceed toward the north pole, ii which direction the current would probabb 0007 IU ■ —Wr ~—-----