Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

California farmers sell pumpkins at $1 a tom The Crown Prinoea. of Denmark is six feet, Three inches tell. An orange tree in Polk county, Fla., is seven feet in circumference. * Mrc. Dorothy Tennant Stanley is two inches taller than her husband. Over 3,000,000,C00,000 envelopes are manufactured in England annually. A Russian millionaire is building the largest steam yacht tons. Of the 882 prisoners in the Kansas penitentiary —only 22 are unable to read* A plumber in England won the University prise for an essay on English poetry. There are seven American girls among the students at Newuham. Cambridge England. A tunnel between Scotland and 'reland is discussed, thirty miles long, to cost $40,000,000. Sarah Bernhardt has fattened enough to make it wrong to call her ••Cleopatra’s needle,” In the puritan days a cord of oak wood was worth the same as a bushel of turnips—37 cents. In a San Jacinto. Cal., gold mine the other day one “pocket” yielded $2,500 in two hours. It takes 22,000 bonnets a year to cover the heads ot the female soldiers . in the Salvation Army. An Atchison man has had the pleasuse'of reading his own obituary notice. He wrote it himself, and laid it aside to bo published after his death. The American wife of a Chinaman in St. Louis was annoyed by some children who ha4—gathered!- -at—lter- husband’s laundry to see her baby. While one of the children, named Walter Kelly, agei ten, was trying to get a sly peep at the infant, the heartless woman threw lye into his face and utterly destroyed his sight. The children of ex-President Arthur are seeing and learning- according to their respective needs. Nellie, growing into lovely womanhood, is attending boarding-school at Great Barrington, Mass. Her faithful aunt, Mrs. McElroy, living in Albany, is her guardian spirit. Allen Arthur;- tha youDg six-footer, is traveling abroad, and was last reported in Egypt. Referring to the climate of Southern California, Charles Dudley Warner enthusiastically remaks: "What can we say for this little corner which is practically frostless and yet never had a sunstroke, knows nothing of thunder storms und lightning, never experienced a cyclone, which is so warm that the year round one is tempted to live out of doors, and so cold that woolen garments are never uncomfortable. The Kochs, says the Pall Mall Gazette, have hitherto lived so quietly that even at Berlin nobody knows any thing about them, and the question is now being asked everywhere, "Who are the KochsP Where and how do they live?” etc. But "the Kochs" are just as determined to go on with their retired life as the public is to drag them out of it. Dr. Koch’s private patients, of whom, however, he attends only a very limited number, are mostly members of the highest German aristocracy, and all of them are sworn to secrecy as to the Professor’s treatment. The following named rich Indians live in the Puget Sound country, and their wealth is in actual cash and the value of land owned by each: Mrs. Joe Donetti, a full-blooded Indian widow, $250,000; Chris Laughlet, $60,000: Joe 'Goateß',sßo r oooT-Mrs r 000; Jonas Stannup, $60,0J0. In addition to these there are a dozen Indians living along the Puyallup river who are worth from slo,oooto $50,000 each. It is needless to say that these Indians do not care whether the Messiah comes or not. "I have lost SBO,OOO in the recent slump in stocks,” said a New Yorker to a world man, whose home life has been as unxeeptionablo as Lis modest public career lias been above reproach "arfii I am partially left without capita!. I will hive to begin the world gain at 45 no better off than when I started at 20. For along time I.hesitated about breaking the news of my financial ruin to my wife. This is the plan I hit on: I took her to dinner at uelmonico’s the night before Thanksgiviug. Then i took her to the theater. Our Thanksgiving dinner was a dainty one. and when it was over I looked around at the dinning-room. I am unable longer to use, and at the dew home I snail have to move out of, it cost me a struggle, but I told her all jr If I had any doubts as to how she would reoeive the news they were at once dissipated. Some wives are worth many fortunes.” - A Boston barber has discovered that the unpleasant feeling in the cranium, caused by an excessive indulgence in stimulants, can be removed in a few minutes by the application of towels saturated in hot water. Since his announcement of this method of reducing what is known as “swelled head,” several of the. barbers of the Hub regularly apply tbe remedy. To be done , properly not only one towel alone, nor two. should be used, but at least half a dozen, completely covering the face with steaming cloth, and replacing each towel as it becomes cool with another fresh from the hot water faucet. A dreamy languor creeps over the senses. and in a short time the patient is able to go forth with a clear head, an active brain, and the elasticity and vigor of a new man. The hot towel draws the blood away from the brain to the face, making the skin much warmer than the air, which, when the towel is withdrawn, ceols and refreshes the akin.