Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1890 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

The silver plate of Dom Pedro filled fin wagons. Senator Stanford made his first dollar by selling horseradish. Horace Greeley’s sister, who died recently in Peunylvania, was the mother ol eighteen children. Ex-King Milan is said to be anxious to relieve his chronically impecunious condition by marrying the wealthy widow Barrios of Gautemala King Menelek of Abyssinia has had a crown made in Milan, Italy, for $6,003. This is a very cheap crown, but perhaps Menelek does not expeet to wear it long.

General Beale has sold his ranche in California to the inevitable English syndicate for $300,000,006. This comes from locating an extensive farm in the early days of the gold fever. The British war office has decided that when it becomes necessary to handcuff a soldier in uniform he must not be marched through the streets, bat a covered conveyance shall be provided. A Russian officer has invented aluminous projectile to be fired from a gun. It is claimed that it will be extremely useful for discovering the movements of an enemy in a naval contest at night. z Charles John Gay, an English cartman, after a good record of fourteen years, has just been sent to prison for a month for stealing two oranges, worth 1 penny, from some goods he was carting for a large firm of jammakers. Columbus sailed on his first expedition from Palos on Friday, Aug. 8,-1493. He sailed from Cadiz on his second expedition on Sept. 24, 1493; sailed on his third voy age on May 30, 1493, and on his fourth voyage on May 9, 1503. The Czar of Russia has promised to listen at St. Petersburg to a glee dub composed of Americans studying at German universities. He had much better listen to the voice of the American people in regard to the Siberian exiles.

Lord Salisbury, who in his younger days was as lank and abnormally thin as his nephew Arthur Balfour, the secretary for Ireland, has now become exceedingly stout, and even unwieldly. His weight is now stated to be 230 pounds. The earth’s diameter at the equator is 7,925 miles, at the poles 7,899. lbs mean diameter is 7,916 miles; circumference at the equator 24,899. In round numbers there are 54,503,000, square miles of land, and 142,000,000 square miles of water. Doctors, us a rule, are reticent about their fees, but. Dr. Willard Parker was paid SIOO,OOO for the successful removal of an excrescence from the face and neck of the son and heir of one of the wealthiest families in the vicinity of New York. Rev. Carrie Bartiett, who is becoming widely known as a successful preacher in the Unitarian ministry at Kalamazoo, is young and more than commonly attractive, with an oval face, regular features and large, soft eyes and curls about her face. An elephant at Philadelphia died suddenly the other day from enlargement of the heart. Its heart wa3 found to be abnormally large. It more than filled a washtub and weighed 102 pounds. The big hearted but unfortunate animal was one hundred and fourteen years old. Bishop Mackenzie, Of Zululand, who died on Feb. 9, of enteric fever, gave instructions previous to his demise that his corpse should bo buried in Zulu fashion. Accordingly no coffin was used, but the body was tied up in a blanket in a kneeling position and was thus placed in a hole. A Bridgeport. Conn., newspaper recently printed the following advertisement “Chu Fong would likea smally nice Melican lady. She no have to work, as Chu Fong got big lot of money. Chu Fong will do the washee and the cookee; wife she can dress up every day. Prize. $lO for best girL Chu Fong.” The Nonotuck Silk company generates power from a water-wheel at its lowest mil] is-. Leeds, Mass., then turns in into electricity, conveys it to the new mill thirty rods above, where it is converted into motion by means of a dynamo, and thus da the work of a sixty-five horse -power engine. The watchmaker Goering, of Otterson, near Hamburg, Germany, is the oldest veteras ©f the Napoleonic wars. He will bs one hundred and five years old on the 13th of this month. In 1812 he took part m the retreat of the French over the Beresina, and witnessed Napoleon’s flight from Russia.

Laocoon was a Trojan patriot and priest; he opposed the introduction of Sinon’s wooden horse into the city of Troy and was slain with his two sons by two great serpents from the sea Get a translation of Virgil’s .dSneid and read the account given therein. Read also Lessing’s Laocoou, translated by Ellen Frothingham. Santa Cruz has a horse that is fifty-three years old. He came to California in 1813 with William Handley, and was called an old horse then. For many years Jerry worked in the brewery, but was turned out to rest last year. His favorite food is the re ruse malt from the still, ana he does not disdain to wash it down with a bucket oi warm beer.

Jane Hading’s chief points of beauty arc her eyes and hair; for the latter she has used for several years a certain chemical water which does not dye the hair, but which makes it more brilliant and has the effect of making it wavy with a tendency to curl. Her hair is never curled with irons, and the arrangement of it has long been a subject of envy among the ladies is society.

Two large buck deer.in Michigan sou ght until their horns became interlocked, and they were 30 found by Mrs. L. W. Trewary and hor eteven-year-oid son. It took an hour to kill them with knife and club. The tight between the deer had raged over three acres of ground, and the small trees looked as if a tornado had been at work. The gross weight of the deer was 430 pounds. The question of the wholesale destruction of swallows by electricity has at last been taken tip in France, and a report on the subject was presented at a recent meet ins of the Zoological society. In the south of France long wires are Systematically ere ted along the seashore, and when the tired swallows alight on them they are atunnsd or killed by an electric shock. The birds are then sent to Paris, where they are used for decorative purposes. The Gundlach Optical works, of Rochester, N. Y., have completed an eye-piece fer the great Lick telescope. It is composed of two lenses six and one-half and thrLe inches ia diameter respectively. No other eyepiece of anything liko equal dimensions has over been made. The largest now in use is 'not over two inches in diameter. The light from heavenly bodies seen through tbe Lick telescope and this ay4- piece will be 30,000 times as bright ss that seen wish the jsaked eye.