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

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

Up in Rogue River, Ore., fruitgrowers have found a firm firiend in yellow-jackets. They are death on the green aphis scale, and whea they light ou a tree it is thoroughly cleaned in affew minutes. A lawsuit begun two hundred years ago has just been decided by the Imperial courts at Leipsic. It was between the city of Lubeck and Mecklenberg. and concerned the possession of lands on the Trave, Pipes made of paper have been invented and Vienna will give them a trial for gas and water. Paper is in many things giving wood and iron a trial for supremacy. The Berlin fire department has lately received an engine constructed entirely of papier mache. A sentence in Massachuetts, in 1665, discovered in a search of old records: Robert Coles find £lO for “abusing himself shamfully with drink,’’and enjoyed to stand with “A Drunkard” in greaLletters on a white sheet on his back, “soe long as the Court thinks meet.” The Springfield (Mass.) Union that tlie best and finest silk waterproofs are made in Rhode Island, but on account of the foolishness of American customers they have been sent to London and stamped with an English trade-mark and reshipped to this country d.B English goods. Sammy Brazelton was caught in one of hisuwn bear-traps, at Trafton.Cal., and, while waiting for assistance, nearly starved to death. Postmaster Esterbrook happened along, however, as Sammy was about to faint .from hunger, and released him from his unfortunate predicament.