Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

What is claimed to be tbe largest load of logs ever hauled in Santa Cruz county, California, was brought into Monta Vista a few days ago. It was drawn by five yoke of oxen, and ins eluded twenty-five logs that scaled 50,486 feet of lumber. There is a good-sized pumpkin hanging on a vine which runs up the side of a brick house in West Twentyfourth stroet, New York. It can be seen from the down trains of the Ninth avenue elevated as they approach Twenty-thirdstreet, looking westward; Forests ocqupy 39 per cent, of the total area of Sweden, 86 per cent, of Russia, 32 of Austria, 28 of Hungary, 25 of Germany, 24 of Norway, 19 of Belgium, 17 of France 18 of Switzerland, 17 of Spain, 12 of Italy, 4 of Great Britain and Ireland and 19 of the United States.

A Tunnel Hill, Ga., woman gave birth to a son that weighed just one and three-quarter pounds. The child was perfectly formed, but its fingers were no larger than broom straws and its nose no larger than a wart. The infant looked sprightly and intelligent, but only lived three days. An engineer of Manchester, England, is introducing a novelty in paper, viz., paper file-hafts and tool-handles, which are said to be practically indestructible and much cheaper than wood or malleable-iron hafts. Placed under a steam hammer, although they can be flattened, they oan not be split Or cracked.■ - •

There is in the yard of Samuel Owens at Whittier, Cal,, an acacia tree that visitors are never tired of admiring. It has grown from a seed planted two years ago last April, aod is thirty-two feet high. Its trunk a foot above the ground is twelve inches in diameter, while the branches are sixteen feet in diameter. A • ‘lantern” fish was recently caught in the Columbia river, although its proper home is in the deep sea. Its peculiarity is its transparency; by holding it up to tho light every bone can be easily counted. It has a reddish tinge, and this one was about seven inches long, although they have been caught in drag-nets off the coast that were eighteen inches long. At Eichweller in Germany a lady left instructions in her will that when she died she was to bo buried in a splendid ball costume. Her wish has just been carried out. Her father in his last will and testament gave instructions that when he had • -shuffled off this mortal coil,” he was to be buried in his wedding garments. His wish was likewise religiously obeyed. Did you ever think of how much space. tho people who die every year require for decent burial? If one could be content with a grave but 2x6 feet, 3,680 bodies could bo interred in one acre of ground, allowing nothing for walks, monuments, roads, etc. On this crowded plan London’s annual dead, numbering about 81,000 would fill a cemetery of about twenty-three acres.