Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

Lord Tennyson re ce fitly wrote to a London friend lhatne would never again write i*s>oem for publication. , 1 Mr. Parnell has had to pay $3,000 to the Times as costs in the libel suit begun in Edinburg and discontinued. The consumption of American canned fruit is continually on the increase among the m iddle classes of England. The projectors of a tower at London that shall be from 203 to 550 feet higher than Eiffel’s are confident of success. Christine Nilsson is to come out of her retirement to sing at the farewell concerts of Sim 3 Reeves in London in Juno. An English firm is about to bring out a collection of what 51 r. Barnum considers his brighest aud freshest stories. Seventy illicit distilleries have been seized by revenue officials jn southwest Alabama in the last few months. Lieutenant de Salhanha da Gana, of the Brazilian navy, is in this country studying the armament of our man-of-war. The American hogs should “get together’’ and exchange grunts of congratulation. Bismarck can no longer interdict them.

There are in the state of Michigan 71,003 thoroughbred cattle, according to tho report of the State Board of Agriculture. The Duke of Orleans has let his friends the Dukes of Luynes and d’Alencon, pay his prison restaurant bill of 4541, frances France now comes to America for some of its social features. Oyster suppers after theater are now tho fashion in Paris. Queen Victoria has written two books, but shelo fears the critic that she will not have them published until after her death: Walking skirts become fuller and fuller, and a decided change is taking place in the style and general effect of the “make up. ” Rub black walnut furniture, or any wood finished in oil, with cloth slightly moistened with kerosene oil, to remove scratches and restore polish. The seven sages were Solon, Chilo,Pittacus, Bias,Feriander, Cleobolus and Thales. They lived in Greece ia the sixth century B, C. In straw hats for young women the mercury style, introduced last season, is put forth to have at least one more summer reign, j A very largo letter was mailed recently in Bechuanaland. It weighed 238 ounces, and the value of the stamps on it came to $55. The perfect figure of a human body has been found in a large elm tree trunk that was being cut up in a timber yard at Scarborough. " Thick deposits of ice are found in the Stevens mine on Mount McClellan, California. Geologists say that tho ice is 50,009 years old. At Sherlocks, Mariposa County, Cal., lions have killed aii tho hogs, goats, calves and donkeys that are not kept uuder lock and key. Some of the many scientific men we have in our midst declare the alum in much of the modern French bread is injurious te the throat. Ono of Stanley’s Akka dwarfs will be put on exhibition in London as soon us the weather is mild enough to suit his tropical constitution. Lord Salisbury’s unpopularity in England i 3 increasing. Even satirical topical songs at his expense are sung in London music hails. The management of the court theater ol Vienna has decreed that lioroaftor no women who are over 45 years old shall bo engaged for the ballet. Fermentation is arrested at.any stage by electricity. It is said also that electrified water is a powerful antiseptic, aud that it will arrest decomposition. Near Montpelier, in tho south of Franco, two skulls have been exhumed which, judging from their size, must have belonged to men over ten feet high. Nearly every town in Georgia is preparing to put up a cotton seed oil mill. And yet but a few years ago these seeds were considered worthless. French wine growers ’have a supersUtiuos appreciation of comets and expect good crops because four comets will be seen during the summer. In the neighborhood of Hart’s Road, Fla. live two famlies with sixteen boys one having nine and the other seven, and none of the parents are yet forty years old. ! A passenger car on the Boston & Maine Railway was ignited by steam beat a few days ago and it was necessary to cut out a part of the floor to quench the flames. The J ewish population of Palistlno has increased 10,000 annually in the last five years. In 1741 Palestine contained but 8,000 Jews; in 1883, 20,030; end of 1888, 70,003. A new : borax deposit was found recently twenty miles from Independence, * Inyo County, Colo. The lucky finders took 2CO tons from less than throe acres of the marsh. Striking oil continues to be a flourishing industry in Pennsylvania. During the, past month 476 new wells were opened, adding 10,459 barrels to the production of tho oil regions. The Siecle newspaper of Paris says that the French government has decided to occupy Whydata, a province of Dahomey on tho Slave coast.

An almost complots score of Wagner’s •Tannhauser,” written by Richard Wagner, and signed by him has been discovered in the ruins of the Zurich Theater recently burned. The Chineso of San Jose, Cal., lease property from a white man for twelve months in the year,and charge their tenants for thirteen months, there being thirteen months in the Chinese year. English and Fronch medical journals are engaged in a bitter ooutroversy over the death of young Lincoln, the for mer charging it to malpractice and the latter to the having removed the lad across the English Channel. The following curious advertisement appeared not long ago in a newspaper in Paris: “A lad/ having a pet dog whose hair is of rich mahogany color desires to engage a footman with whiskers to match.” General Sherman has once more given the country an oxample of his practical good sense by buying his own monument, a thousand dollar one, and he says: “The moment I am buried it will bo clapped on over me.” - The Madoc Star, a weekly paper, wa* but 3’£x3 inches, with four pages, devoted to general news; while a very bright and spicy journal called the Critic was onc« printed regularly on postal oarda and had quite a large sal*.