Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Kew York city lias a crazo for white buildings. Of every million people in the world eight hundred are blind. In St. Louis there are no basements used as stores, restaurants or saloons. A now daily paper has been started at Cloverdale, Ky., called the Dairy Girl. A sixteen-year-old canary bird in Ellington, Conn., sings as sweetly as ever. A,polite term for spinsters in northern Germany is "standing alone ladies.” A blueberry factory at Cherryfield, Mo., has canned 7,0(i3 bushels of berries this season. The twentieth anniversary of a wedding is never celebrated. It is considered very unlucky to do so. It is as impossible for some people to mind their own business as it is for them to have any business of their own to mind. If any one wants to king it a little while the King of Portugal would probably turn his job over to him at a moderate price. A young man walked in his sleep one night at Slaterville, Ga., and when he awoke he found himself at a grind-stone sharpening his knife. Some take their wrath up in their arms and nurse it and coddle it, until it £rows to be so strong and lusty a thing that they can no longer hold it or control it. ‘•Yes, sir, we must agitate!” remarked the walking delegate. "We must agitato or perish*” Then he agitated it gently with a spoon, and pretty soon it perished—all but the sugar. A woman seventy years old has patented a sewing-machine needle which does not require threading, it seems very simple, and all who have seen it wonder why nobody thought it before. Experts say that the buried city of Pompeii has not yet yielded up a third of its artistic treasure; that at the present rate of progress sevonty years will elapse before it is thoroughly unearthed. A i&or washerwoman at Fayetteville, Ark., Vho a few days ago was notified that she had been granted a pension and would receive 15,000 back pay, wa3 so overcome with joy that she died. John Arbuclde, whoJhaß been called "the king of the coffee pot,” has a fortune that is variously estimated at from fifteen to twenty million dollars. He began to grind coffee in a small way in Pittsburg fifteen years ago. There is a young man in Belfast, Me., but thirty-five years of ago, who is the father of three daughters, all by a different mother, from .legitmate marriago. One is seven years of age, another three years and the last three months old.

The eyes of insects are immovable and many of them seem cut into a multitude of facets like the facets of a diamond. Each of these facets is supposed to possess the powers of a true eye. Loeuwenhook counted 3,181 of them in the cornea of a beetle, and over 8,000 in that of a common horsefly. There is but two excuses for an American to travel incog, in Europe —either hie is avoiding his bills or is avoi'Sng somebody who wants help liquidating his own. William Waldorf Astor pleads the latter as the rearm for traveling under the name of W. H. Class. That is, ho is doing his legitimate best to dodge foreign beg- > 4..., ■-i