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

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

A down easter feeds Ms horse bj an alarm clock device. The Cincinnati cromato-y up to date has disposed of 116 bodies. - . A famous showman has succeeded in training geese to perform. Wilkes county, Georgia, claims a cow that is an expert rabbit hunter. A fight between a wildcat and a bull dog bias been arranged for at Augusta, (Is. ■> , Nearly 150 miles of canals were washed away by the recent Roods in Arizona. A Philadelphia magistrate opens court with the dignified utterance, •‘Let ’er go.” , ! A perfect pearl weighing twentyseven grains was found recently by a Pottstown (Pa.) boy iffa mussel along the French creek. The head and the heart in the game of love Must play its seperate part. Bnt we'll pardon a girl a cold in the head So long’s she's not cold in the heart. t A fund of $75,000Ts "to be raised to endow an Infirmary for Yale students. Now If the college will buy a burial lot in_a fashionable cemetery ail the contingencies ot foot ball will have been provided for.

comes to the front gracefully in the matter of a gift to the cruiser named in her honor. In two .days she-i'aised SI,OOO, and forthwith put it into a silver service of six pieces, which wa9 yesterday presented to the ship, now in Southern waters, by a special delegation. Mayor Hemphill made the pi-e-entation, and every man beside him, over forty, had been ike himself a Confederate soldier. ( The Florida Times-Union says: General Alger drove up to one of tne railroad offices this morning, alighted and went in. He wanted to find out something about transportation, and ,the agent said: “What is your name, sir?" ‘‘General Alger,’’ was the re'ply. “Well,” said the agent, “I’m glad you’re a general, ’cause these Florida woods are ju3l full of colonels. ’* ) An Indiana girl has taken the prize of §2uo offered by~Ttre"Cosraopolitan Magazine for •‘the best article of 40U0 words descriptive of farm life, with the best suggestion as to the best method of making farm life attractive and happy.” only farmers’ daughters being permitted to enter the competition. The design us Tho Cosmopolitan was to draw out an expression of opinion a sto the important problems of happiness and comfort on the modern fa m, and it was so successful that more than 200 manuscripts, very many of them ably prepared, and representing nearly every State and Territory, were sent in. The prize was awarded by Prof H. H. Boyesen and the editor The Cosmopolitan, the final committee of award, to Miss Jenaie E. Hook of McCutchantvi'.le, near Evansville. Ind. Her article will appear in the April number of The Cosmopolitan and the the same number will contain a very interesting article on the Farm ers’ Alliance, by the newly elected United States Senator Peffer, of Kansas.

Is there a code of newspaper mans ners? This Is one of the questions which George William Curtis wll discuss in the Editor’s Easy Chair in Harper’s Magazine for April. Tne code of newspapers manners, he says, is the universal code of courtesy,and not one restricted to the newspapers. “Good manners-in civilized society- are .the same anywhere and in all relations, if a man is a gentleman, ho does not cease to begone because he enters a newspaper office, and it would seem to be equally true that if his work on the paper does not prove to be that of a gentleman, it could not have been a gentleman who did the work. A gentleman, we will suppose, does not blackguard his neighbors, nor talk incessantly about himself and his achievements, nor behave elsewhere as he would be ashamed to behave in his club or his own family. If a gentleman does net do these things, of course a gentleman does not do them in a newspaper.” V —* : ±; New York Sun, “See that man over there?” “Yes.” __ “Ho was worth a million once.” “Poor fellovy! How did ho lose it?” “He didn’t. He has five million now.”