Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — [?]IISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

[?]IISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Dallas, Texas, has a plague of crickets. There are always 5.500,000 people on the seas'Of the world. Archbishop Corrigan is the son of a Newark Hotel proprietor. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has gone abroad for an extended visit. It is said that Maine’s hay crop this year is worth $15,000,060. Parisian Anglomaniacs send their linen to Lbndon to be washed. There is no rest for lhe weary, and nobody else needs it.—-Dallas News, ■ Strauss is perfecting a waltz that will admit of conversation while dancing it. The. first King’s speech from the throne is said to have been by Henry I, 1107. General Ezeta, "’ho whipped the Guatemalans, is only twenty-seven years old. Twenty thousand miles of railroad have been built in the South during the last 1 eii years. One may travel a great waysin London beforeseeing all of the town. The collective length of the streets would reach over 32,000 miles. Mr. Thomas R. Ballentine, of Norfolk, Va., Has a 350-acre truck farm which brought him in $50,000 this year. His net profit was $20,000. Mr. Gladstone will not be persuaded. He writes to the Canadian Liberals that “I can not hope to see that great territory, for my age. and still more my engagements utterly disable me from crossing th© Atlantic.” C. A. Eastman, a full bleoded Sioux Indian, who recently graduated from Harvard, is, the idol of the Boston girls. His room is filled with pin cushions, chair covers, gloves and j handkerchief cases and givesJorth the . scent of sweet flowers. In the “Editor’s Easy Chair" of J Harper’s Magazine for October. George William Curtis will present some! pleasant reasons why we should regard our own time as the best of all possi- • ble times. “If it were not so, Nature would deny to each generation and . every man the opportunity which she granted to all her predecessors. If the Golden Age seems always to be far., behind, that also is but a gentle device ’ of Nature to stimulate us by the happy ; inspiration that what man has done man may do—and more. ” - Joseph Jefferson closes his autobiography in the October Century with what he himself is sahfto consider the most important instarlltnent of all, probably because he ventures to state here, more fully than before, his reflections on the art of acting. He touches on the question as to whether an actor should “feel” his part; describes a fault of French actirig; discusses imitators; how to keep fresh in playing a part; how to learn to act; how to conduct rehearsals; and how far realism rtiliy be allowed on the stage.'

There is a young lady in as mitarium at Clifton Springs. N. Y., who has become such a slave to chocolate candy that all the shopkeepers for miles ’around have been notified not to sell her any. She has eaten so much ofAt that her skin has become the color o f chocolate. ReccnCy. by a piece of deception, she was :.b'e to get two nounds of the candy frtTffl a confectioner and ate it al l at one sitting. She was seriously ill for a. while, but is again ready-for more chocolate. It; may interest those who have been heart-tossed by the countless'romances of Miss as well as those who never expect to read a line of this prolific authoress, to know that not a little of her story stuff is manu-Jartttred.-in=m,.-regular.-stoEy_machina shop, to-wit, in a London bureau of clever people conducted by her husband, Mr. Maxwell Miss Braddor ■ supplies plot, some of the situations, ' conversations, catastrophes, etc., but leaves, the padding to the unknown biit skilled hirelings of the bureau. When the book is done the bureau , talks business with English and Ameri ican syndicates. “Antoine’s Moose-Yard” is the title of an article w)iich Julian Ralph w 1 ' contribute to Harper's Magazine for I October. It is a narrative of hunting ‘adrenturei in the grea' Canad’an woods, and is accompanied by twelve spirited illustrations from drawings by , Frederic Remington. A moose-yard jis the name given by Canadian htints- ; men to the <f®eding-ground of a herd 'of moose. Each herd or family of ' these great wild cattle has two such feeding-grounds', and they are said to : go alternately from one to the other, never herding in one place two years I in .succession, Whether they desert a yard for twelve month* because of the damage they do it in feeding upon tho branches and foliageof soft-wool trees and shrubs, or whether it M*stinctivo ciutlon that directs their movements, no one can more than conjorturo. It took Mr. Ralph’s party a w®i»k to kill ’ one moose in a country where they were common game.