Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

A microscopic examination shows that the word ‘‘hello” makes 16.000 indentations in a phonographic cylinder. B « A Barre, Vt.. man is eighty-five years of age and has thirty-nine children, thirty-seven of whom are girls. The “old slave market,” which is pointed out to every Northern visitor in St. Augustine, never saw the Bale of a single slave. In thirtv-flve parishes of Louisiana the colored people outnumber the whites in Borne oases in proportion of fifteen to one. A Nebraska competitor in a guessing contest came within one of the exact population of that State as given in the census returns. A turnip measuring four feet in circumference and weighing fifty pounds is on exhibition at the New Whatcom, Wash., Chamber of Commerce. ' The earth’s fifteen hundred millions of human inhabitants speak 3,034 different languages, and possess about one thousand different religious beliefs. t A Frenchman has recently discovered, near Thebes, in Egypt, a large eave containing 240 sarcophagi, the oldest of which dates back 2,600 years B. C. The rose gardens around ParU have been ruined by the severe winter. They gave employment to six thousand persons, and will no doubt be replaced. The youngest public school ma'am In the world lives at Bernville, Pa. She has forty scholars, began teaching six month’s ago and is only thirteen years of age. j Seventeen hundred Sioux are members of the Episcopal Church, and Baptists, Catholics and Congregationalists are also well represented among them. ' 1 vThe amount of nutritive matter afforded by Indian corn is inferior only to (hat of wheat and rtce. In the quantity raised and use for food, it is inferior to rice alone. It seems hard that a man 137 years old, who has been the husband of nine wives and the father of forty-six children. must end his days in the Chat* tanooga poor house. He ought to have the freedom of all Tennessee. A Paris tobacconist, who had perhaps been lin America, advertised a certain cigar to be “the best in the world for .» it is ” He was arrested, failed to prove it ‘‘the best,” and fl ted sio for “malicious intention to djceiye.’