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

SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

A paper in Canton estimates that 75,000 people die in China every year by Are and flood. A wash of equal parts of glycerine and lactic acid will remove moth and freckles from the face. Colonel Ingersoll says “epithets are so cheap that you can make money on lies at fifteen cents a hundred.” The Indianapolis News: “It is only a question of time when the wisest of us will make a foolish break.” - The steamship Savannah made the firs! ocean voyage in July, 3519, sailing from New York to Liverpool in twenty-six days. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson Butler, the artist, will paint an eviction scene. She has gone to Ireland to study the surroundings. When one is fatigued and sore from much walking, it is very refreshing to bathe the feet in warm water and rub with extract of arnic& The Alexandrian Library was in Alexandria, Egypt It is said to have contained 100,003 valuable books (manuscripts.) It was burned A. D> 610. There are a dozen factories In Amsterdam kept busy night (and day making genuine old spoons, knives and forks for idiotic American tourists. Andrew Carnegie having foOgdedJVgCuU* braries in all the places he made his money, has started- to build a mammoth hotel at Braddock, to be occupied solely by his employes and their families A silk handkerchief, so often recommended for wiping spectacles or eyeglasses, is not good for this purpose, as it makes the glasses electrical, and causes the dust to adhere to them. The Russian government has ordered the planned great railway line across Siberia to be begun. When the line is completed it is estimated that ’.the tour of the world in fifty days will be feasible The Russian government will attempt, to lift two English steamers which, were sunk off Balaclava during the Crimean war. it is believed that in one of the vessels is a chest containing 9300,000. King Leopold, of Belgium, speaks and writes English with ease and accuracy. He never lets a Sunday pass without writing an autograph letter to his friend and ally. Queen Victoria. Whenever he travels he takes with him his confidential English attendant, Mr. Charles Murray, who has been in his service nearly ft quarter of a century. It is related of Bishop Potter that he was once taken to task by a few of bis denominational brethren on the charge of exhibiting a conceit of himself at varianoe with the spirit of humil'ty. “It is not conceit,” said the bishop, with that ponderous bearing that silenced opposition, “it is not conceit, brethren; it is the consciousness ol superiority.” The advent of a lot of ballet girls of Barnum and Baity’s circus in Bridgeport, Conn., has caused two corset factory girls to loose their situation a Desirous of emulating the high kickers they practiced during lunoh hours and were surprised by

the shocked foreman. He dismissed the offenders with the remark that “no kickers wane wanted them" Sir Juliah Pauncefote and Secretary Blaine have become warm friends. Tb y liked each other from their first meeting and further Intercourse has strengthened their regard for one another. Sir Julian haa even gone so far as to read Blaine*! “Twenty Years of Congress.” Whatever may come between them diplomatically they will always be wen disposed toward each other. There are allowed at the United Naval Academy at Annapolis one naval cadst foi each member or delegate of tbe Uiited States house of representatives, ore for Uh District of Columbia and ten at large. Thi president appoints the ten at large ard IL one for the District of CoiumMu Ttu course of naval cadets Is six years, the la>: two sf Which must bo spent at roe. Can fiidutes must be between fourteen ant eighteen years of age, physically sound, well fo.mad and of rooust wustitudoe The pay of a naval cadet is SBOO a yet !.