Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

Emtn PaSba Is a linguist His tongue can handle seven different languages. General Miles is considered the handsomest officer in the United States army. Nearly all the handsomer dinners given in Philadelphia are photographed by flash light A restaurant-keeper says celery wants to lie in cold water an hour before it is chewed. Tulare Lake, CaL, is and to have increased seven miles in width and length this year. To brighten carpets wipe them' with warm water in which has been poured a few drops of ammonia. The Northern travelers do pretty well by the South. They leave in that section million dollars every ye ir. Great Britain is a drunken land. In the past ten years the arrests for inebriety have reached nearly 2 millions. King Oscar of Sweden, who is well known as an author, has turned his pen from poetical to military themes. Three Angora goats owned by Mr. Hickathier, of Drain, Oregon, were sheared recently, whose fleeces weighed 195 pounds. If society can shake hands even with a distand descendant of nobility it smirks, smiles and maybe it is happy; who knows? You are advised not to put your trust in riches, but in these mercernary times a good many people are putting their money in trusts.

The Japanese government has sent two engineers to Berlin to study the telephone system, with a view of establishing a line in Japan. An English literary statistician has discovered that of the 582 heroines in last year’s novels 372 were blondes and 190 brunettes.

Japan is a peculiar country. There are chickens in that land with tails from eleven to fifteen feet long and they are prouder than the peacock. Emin Pasha gets $50,000 a year from his German employers for his services in Africa. He speaks twenty-seven different languages and dialects. How music spreads among the masses can be imagined from the estimate that in Sheffield there are about six hundred artisans who play the violin. The latest idea is to use paper instead of wood for lexd pencils, by using a patent preparation by which it can be cut as easily as the softest wood. Speaking of brief names there is a family in France named B, one in Belgium named O, a river in Holland called the Y, and a village in Sweden named A. - Little Joseph Hoffmann, who is living at Eisnach, practices steadily at his home, composing more or less, but has not played in public since he left this country. The city of Philadelphia makes a profit of more than $1,000,030 a year by supplying gas to the consumers, besides having the entire city lighted free of cost. Talk about the swarming population of a tenement house, how is this: Out in Utah a Mormon with two wives and fourteen children lives in a hut of one room. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Princeton; 111., is collecting a fund with which to buy American flags to place over the public school buildings of that city. The Atchison Globe has discovered that “every man has a fool streak; it is only a matter of giving him an opportunity to show it.” Fortunate the man who dies before the opportunity arrives. James Payn, the English novelist, has written about forty novels and every word of the manuscript is in his own handwriting. He will have nothing to do with .stenographers and typewriters. The heliograph is used to flash signal; between stations in New Mexico and AriZQna that are seventy-five miles apart. Ex periments will soon te made to test the power of the instrument to a distance ol 100 miles.

The colo flower, discovered by Dr.Schad enberg growing upon a volcanic mountain in one of the Philippine islands, is perhaps the largest flower in existence, being three feet in diameter and twenty-twt pounds in weight A maker of stoppers for beer bottles, with a suit for infringement before the United States court, gave some notion ol the immense business done in bottled beer, by stating that there were 30,000,000 of his alone in use in the United States.

Almonds are blanched by pouring water over them after, they are shelled; when they have remained for a few moments in the water they can be rubbod in a soft, dry towel, and the skin will slip oft the kernels, leaving them white and entire. One often reads pathetic stories of pet 'birds tbatdie simultaneously with or shortly after, their child owmr.«. ft sounds pretty, but the simple prose of the matter is that the owners infected the birds. Canaries and other songsters will catch scarlot fever measles, diphtheria or almost any other human disease, and if left in the sick-room they are almost sure to be affected.

To cure hiccough,, sit erect and inflate the lungs fully. Then, retaining the breath, bend forward slowly until tbe chest meets the knees. After slowly rising again to the erect position, slowly exhale tbe breath. Repeat this process a second time, and the nerves will be found to have received an excess of energy that will enable them to perform their natural functions.

A gay bachelor of Philadelphia has a curious decoration over his sitting room mantel. A large frame is filled with photographs of girls and women, most of them pretty. At the bottom of each picture is pasted a newspaper clipping. “Why, Mr. Brown, what do you meanl” he was asked recently. “They are pictures of the only girls lever loved,” ha replied, “and thosa arathete marriage notices.” M. Bartholdi, the well known architect of the American figure of Liberty, is engaged in designing a monument to commemorate tho balloon service of the Franco-Prussian war, which is to be erect-' ed in the Square of St Pierre, Paris. He proposes to construct a model of a baloon out of thick glass, with an iron-work net ting. An electric aro limp will occupy the center and light up the whole interior. In Switzerland and other mountainous countries the goat leads long strings of animals daily to and from the mountains, but it is in South Africa that it is regular!; kept and employed as a leader of flocks ol sheep. Should * blinding storm ot rain oi hail drive the eßly sheep before lt,or cause them to huddle together in a corner so ai to suffocate each other, the trained goal will wake them up. and. by a method best Known to himself will induce them to fol low him to a place of safety.