Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The last words of James Lillie, the ball player who died in Kansas City a few days ago, were: “I’m afraid that it’s three strikes and out.” Harper & Brothers have just published the eleventh bound volume of Harper’s Young People, also Freedom Triumphant, the concluding volume of Charles Carleton Coffin’s history of the civil war. - ■ ~ 1 - ■ ■ . - <*•;. The Rio News “the coffee crop of Hayti this year is unusually large and that the generally good news from coffee producing countries this year promises to cause much lower prices for the next year or two. ” - ; The wife of ex-Gov. St. John is drawing large audiences in the We t as a lecturer. A local paper describes her as “bright-eyed, glib of tongue, and a-blamed sight prettier than her cranky husband.” Even the sanctifying baptismal tank sometimes becomes a pitfall for the unwary. The other day Ovide Musin, the violinist, 'trying to reach the platform in a Brookly church, first walked into the baptistry and got a good ducking. Talmage, too, has come that near going over to the sister faith. He was trying to get on the platform, of a Brooklyn Baptistjchurch when he blindly marched into the baptistry. When Talmage told his experience to Dr. Thomas pastor, the latter said: “I wish I had known you were in the tank, as I would have tried to keep you there long enough to make a good Baptist of y-ou.”

The first German steamer intended for use on the Victoria Nyanza has been shipped from Hamburg for the east coast of Africa. It is called the Wissmann, and a few months more will see a steamboat ploughing the greatest of African lakes. It is to be followed by another German and if the British raise money enough they will also send a steamboat. There is now a good prospect that within a year or so there will be at least three steamboats on this lake, among whose stormy waters Stanley and other travelers had such exciting and dangerous experience in their frail little boats.

George W. Childs, being recently asked if Postmaster General Wanamaker is seriously embarrassed in money matters, replied: “Not at all. I do not suppose he owes all told $400,000. He is a large holder of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad stock, and in the recent squeeze attributed to Jay Gould, ho was put to the necessity of raising money. But his friends were responsive, and he had no trouble. To the community the failure of such a man v as John Wanamaker would be a shock. He is a progressive 'man, one thoroughly wrapped up in the city of Philadelphia. He employs 8,500 people, quite an army, at salaries ranging from $5 a Week to SIO,OOO a year.”