Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Fully three-fourths of the babies of the world go naked until they get to be five or six years old. The Canadian Indians keep their babies naked up to a certain point, __ and as for the little Coreans, they wear nothing but a short skirt until they are as old as our sehooi-boys. When the Queen had read "Alice in Wonderland” she personally solicited its author by letter to send her an-, other of his - ‘charming books.” Then the droll gentleman, who is a fellow of Christ Church College, sent her Majesty his treaties on the “Differential Calculus.” A retired English Army officer of means is on a tour through the Western States of America. When he down to dinner a day or two ago he. met with quite a surprise. The waiter who took his order was his son, who had run away from home to scalp Indians seven years ago. Here is the witty answer by which a hero, whom Bismarck was commis-, ■ioned by the Emperor to decorate with the Iron Cross of the first class, discomfited the Chancellor's attempt to chaff him. "I am authorized,” said Bismarck to him. "to offer you a hundred thalers Instead of the cross.”. "How much is the cross worth?” asked the soldier. "Three thalers.'* "Very well, then, your highness, I’ll, take the cross and ninety-seven thalers.” Bismarck was ,bo surprised and pleased by the ready shrewdness of the reply that he gave the maq both the crols and the money.