Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

An low* woman has named her twin daughters Gasoline and Kerosene. Edwin Booth has earned a quarter of a million during the past three years. There are 82,390 tenements in New York, not counting the better class of flats. Miss Nellie Bly has been presented with a Jersey cow by a Tennessee friend., i : A new-elected school teacher at Berneville. Pa., is but thirteen years of age. Baron Albert Rothschild, of Vienna, is an enthusiastic amateur photographer. The Bismarck monument fund amounted to $190,000 at the end of September. ! Bears and deer are more numerous in Dismal Swamp of Virginia than for many years. A corn stalk at Dyersburg, Miss., bears an oar thirty-six inches long, weighing fourteen pounds. Rubenstein’a musical education was completed at thirteen years of age. After that time he had no teacher, i Berlin drank in 1889, 268,247,100 quarts of beer—that is, about 150 quarts to every man, woman, and child. From noon till 4 o’olook every day P. T. Barnum tdkes a nap. and during those hours no one is allowed to disturb him. The season’s sensation at Cadillac, Mioh., is a Seventy-five pound squash. Last year it had a horse which climbed up stairs each morning and kissed the chambermaid.

Continuous heavy rains have greatly injured the rice crop on the Savannah River. One planter who expeoted to clear SIB,OOO on his harvest now says he will be satisfied if he pays expenses. Mrs. Kate Williams, of Denver, ColQ., has obtained a verdict of $12,000 against Mrs. E. S. Williams, of Brooklyn, her mother-in-law, whom she claims was the cause of her husband leaving her. Susan La Flesh, an Indian girl, who graduated in medicine from one of the colleges of Philadelphia after going through the Hampton (Va.) school, is practicing among her tribe, the Omahas, with success. Miss Emma S. Trapper has made an investigation and found that out of fifty New York hotels visited, in eighteen of them female servants were required to Sleep in rooms under the ground. In one hotel the ceiling of the sleeping room was four feet below the sidewalk. Miss Flora Grace, of lowa, is the inventor of a cooking thermometer, which, instead of registering “summer heat,” “blood heat” and “freezing point,” marks the boiling point, the gently simmering altitude, and the vary ing baking points for meats, bread, cake and pies. When some boys and a dog were chasing a pet rabbit, at Rich Hill, Mo., it took shelter under a hen with a brood of chickens. The old hen nearly picked and scratched the eyes out of the dog and kids, and from that day to this the hen and the rabbit are inseparable.—Kansas City Star. At the public land sale at the State House in Augusta, Me., on Wednesday, not a single person appeared to bid. By telegraph and letter, however, five bids were received and twenty lots Were sold. This absence of bidders in person rendered the sale the most novel in the annals of the State. “I don’t see why I can’t keep my husband at home.” said a distressed looking little woman. “Why don't you try to make home attractive to himP” “I have. I’ve taken up the parlor carpet, sprinkled saw-dust on the floor, and put a beer keg in the room, but some way or other it doesn’t seem to make any difference. ”•—Wash-

ington Post. While the annual banquet of the Electric Club was in progress in their New York club house on Thursday svening a band in the offices of the Long Distance Telephone Company, two miles away, played for the entertainment of the assemblage. The music was transmitted by a curious contrivance, the transmitter of which was concealed in the chandelier above the table in the Electric Club. This problem is puzzling thousands to-day. as the old 15 puzzle did. Add any six of these figures together and make 21: 1 1 1 3 8 8 6 5 6 7 7 7 9 9 9 As a fact, a solution is impossible. Any two odd numbers added together make an even number, and six odd lumbers are merely three sets of twos. In other words, one odd number added to a second odd number makesan even, a third odd added makes aa odd; a fourth odd added makes an even; a fifth odd added makes an odd, and a sixth odd added makes an even. Therefore, neither 21 nor any other odd number can be obtained by adding together six odd numbers. j Four years ago Miss Lena Woodard, living on Thorn Creek, near St. John, Washington, sowed the seed from one head of barley. She harvested the crop with a pair of shearß, and sowed the amount received the next year, again harvesting it with her shears. The third crop her father cut with a grass scythe, getting enough barley from this crop to sow f orty acres last spring, which averaged forty bushels to the acre when threshed, making a total yield of 1,600 bushels from ©he head of barley in four years.