Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1890 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

Chancellor Boggs, of the Georgia State University, 1? said to be the youngest mas in the United States occupying such a position. Zinc-covered kitchen tables are finding favor now with housewives and servants, They are easy to keep clean and are exceedingly durable A blanket fish is one of the curiosities seen in the gulf between Key West and Tampa. It looks like an untanned cowhide floating in the water. Since the recent experiments with smokeless powder m Germany the question ol the suppression of the spiked helmet has been much agitated. The Supreme Court of the United States is three years behind in its business, which is piling up at a rate that is likely to set the court still further in arrears. Nearly the whole of Sennacherib’s great palace in Assyria has been cleaned out,and the result is that L7H) tables etc., have beeu secured for tbe British museum. An English syndicate with Lord Brassey and Lord Richard Grosvenor at its head is abont to turn Brussels into a seaport by building a canal and three immense basins. Fortune has not kept faith with Anna Dickinson. In ten seasons she made with her pen and on the lecture platform nearly $300,000. She is reported to have but little of it now. Kate Field, in her Washington, has excited grave apprehension by threatening to say a word or two about the pernicious habit Indulged in by so many people, of eating with their knives. The Swedish Oyster Culture Society la trying to acclimatize American oysters from Connecticut on the coast of the province of Bahus. Tbe young oysters seem to thrive well. Anew telephone has been brought out in England which is said to not infringe upon any existent patent It is of tbs most simple construction, consisting of an elec-tro-magnet and celluloid diaphragm. A usurer at Aschersleben, Germany, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment 3,000 marks fine and five years’ police surveillance for charging an army officer 180 per cent interest on money loaned. A man recently hanged in a southern state was born on Friday, married on Friday, presented with twins on Friday, committed his crime on Friday and was hanged on Friday. And his name wasn’t Friday, French doctors are reported to have dis covered that the essence of cinnamon,when sprinkled in the room of typhoid fever patients, kills the bacteria within twelve hours and prevents the disease from ■ApWijUiXL- ni’ r t . r y—.— Mri \-;,m

A Georgia editor has an old confederate shoe, manufactured for the government in 1864, just before the war ended. The sole Is fully three-quarters of an inch thick, and is made of poplar wood, evidently shaped with a hatchet or drawing knife.' A share company, with a considerable working capital, has been floated in England to work a patent for what is called the “sterilization” of milk, that is, the destruction of the bacteria, through which, certain diseases, notably typhoid fever, are spread. The height of an olive tree is usually twenty feet, but it is sometimes as high as fifty feet and it reaches an almost fabulous age. . One lately destroyed at Beaulieu had a recorded age of five centuriesand it was thirty-six feet in circumference. Marshal MacMahon is in favor of retaining the red trousers of the French soldiers. He says that the fuss made about them is altogether too great, because futurejfighung must be at long range and red is a color which is lost sight of at a comparatively short distance. The homes of rich Mexicans are said to be palaces, and the grounds around them aro gardens. There is an oriental splendor around them that is not found in the United States. There is an expanse about everything and a retinue of servants that is bewildering. A gentleman who lives near Washingington Village, Me., and deals in sewing machines ran upon quite a mine of wealth recently. In tearing to pieces an old machine which had been in his possession for some time he ran upon a secret cavity containing fifteen $2<J bills. “Sun sickness” is the term applied to the condition of the people of Melbourne, who recently passed through a torrid season. So abnormal was the heat that natives of M adras and negroes from Sierra Leone suffered more than they had ever suffered in their native climes. The bashaw of Tangier has become so corpulent that be is unable to walk abroad. He is only five feet two inches in height and must be about the same in breadth, as he weighs over 403 pounds. He has been advised by his thirty-two physicians to fast for a mouth, but he says he will see them bow-strung first Salvation is free, but it is pretty hard for projection lo keep ils ns essment off of Mouut Calvary. Talmag , however, did suc eed io getting t e stone he rolieJ from Calvary admitted duty free through tho custom house on the representation that it had “come to stay" and would be made the corner stone of his new tabernacle. An old duck hunter at Savannah says that a flight of ducks coming south on one dav, if followed by other flights in the same direction days or weeks afterward, Will not vary to’exceed twenty-five feet from the path of the ducks which have preceded them, and will a light in almost tho exact spot where preceding flights have settled.

There is a new use for hypnotism—namely, as a remely for habitual drunkenness. The drunkard, after being hypnotized, is informed that ardent spirits are nasty and the obje l of bis particular hatred. II this is repeated two or three times the habit of thougdt becomes so fixed that the drunkard cannot bring himse.f to drink a drop of the spirits. Stanley d scribe* the dwarf tribe of the forest. lie says they are the oldest aristocracy in the world, with institutions dating back fifty centuries. • hey are ruled by a queen, a beautiful, ch -rating little woman, who was exceptionally kind to Stanley and his comrades. The dwarfs are of olive complexion, remarkably intelligent, ingenious artificers in iron and ivory, and probably the only monogamous race in Africa. A Pittsburg drummer went into a Cleveland shop to tfdk steam engines to the proprietor. A pretty little woman entered at the same time, and the drummer, supposing it was the proprietor's daughter, stepped aside and allowed her to pass. He we* amazed when she opened the con versa tios by inquiry alter the health ft Ms steam gauges, sad he nearly had a stroke o! apoplexy when she took an order for a lot of steam fixtures. She smiled on the otbei drummer as she tripped eat eari made him wish he was dead.