Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — S0 MEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

S0 MEWHAT CURIOUS.

There are, said to be 13,000 different kinds of postage stamps in the world. A Georgia woman is the v mother of twentyvsix children, all of whom aro alive. Th Yokohama, with a population of 78, 000, the number of electors is under 800, / In Buenos Ayres the polioe alone have the right to whistle in the street, Any other person whistling is at once arrested. In 1606 any one absent from church on Sunday was fined 1 shilling. An act for restraining amusements on Sunday was passed in 1625. A Williamston, Mich., man whose well ran dry found that the roots or a grown a distance of 24 feet, coiled up on the bottom in a solid mass, and were carrying all the water into the foliage. Within the past three months injunctions have been given against 150 saloons in Dubuque lowa, a prohibition State, and not one has been closed. The California papers are filled with notices of the large sums made by fruit growers there this season. One man's peach orchard netted him $1, 210 /to the acre. The champion butter producing cow of the world is named Euratisimas, owned in Massachusetts, and hpr record is 945 pounds and nine ounces of butter in one year. A kitten in Hood River, Ore., caught a lizard but will never catch another. The reptile, in attempting to escape, ran down its enemy’s throat, where it lodged with fatal results. A contemporary remarks that "salt, is an absolute essential in the diet of man.” Nevertheless the Indians do not use it, and in one case, at least, not even after becoming civilized. A boy was recently discovered in Midland county, Michigan, niear Pleasant Valley, whose body is covered with scales marked similar to a mud turtle. He will be put upon exhibition.

_ There is an inmate of th 6 Georgia State Lunatic Asylum who imagines, in his insanity, that he is a grain of corn. He will not go into the yard, fearing the chickens will eat him. A blind old soldier, asking for alms at Manchester, England, church door, had a board hung round his neck inscribed as follows: "Engagements, 8; wounds, 10; children, 6; total, 24.” It is said that flocks of sheep can be protected from coyotes, wolves and other wild beasts by placing a good sounding boll on each animal. Western men say this device is effectual. It is said that the health of operatives improves where electric lights are used. Their appetites and their ability to sleep increases, This result is quite marked in some cases in London. The light is also said to be better for the eyesight. An ordinance InSterling, Conn., exempts blind persons from taxation. Farmer Barbour claims exemption under the law, and proved to the satisfaction of an intelligent judge and jury that, though he could mow, hoe and load hay on a cart he was stone blind.