Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1891 — CURRENCY. [ARTICLE]

CURRENCY.

Detroit Free Press. couldn’t be expected. In the last five years twenty-seven American girls have married Chinamen. and it is reported that in only five cases have they lived with their husbands beyond a few months. NO WONDER. No wonder the Cheyenne Indians are full of horse play. Among them are Red Horse, Black Horse, Gray Horse, High Horse, Little Horse, Kicking Horse, Horse-That-Runs and Sleepy Horse. HE LOVED HER. A Mrs. Wainwright fell overboard In Jupiter Inlet, Fla., and was eaten by a shark. For three years her husband has dohe nothing but hunt lupiter Inlet sharks, and up to date has landed about 300 of them and is still fishing. HE FELT COMPELLED. Antonio Guerrero, a Mexican gentleman who did not believe it compatible with his dignity to labor, was convicted the other day of eight murders and fourteen assaults. The judge in the case said he was sorry, but he really felt compelled to sentence Antonio to death. SHE FAINTS AWAY. A Chicago thief has for his pal a good looking young woman whe enters a jewelry store, faints away while looking at something, and during the excitement that follows the thief manages to pocket something. If you own a jewelry store look out for the pair. JUST PLAIN SNAKES. A Pennsylvania man says he knows of a spot where at least 5,000 serpents are bunched together for the winter. There are no fancy snakes among them, but just common, every-day snakes, such as blue racers and rattlesnakes, and he asks no particular credit for his discovery. DOWN ON SPAIN. Philip Walsh, a Philadelphian, who went to Spain to study the manners and customs of the people, sums up the result as follows: ‘ 1 don’t know what Spain was when Washington Irving was there, But I know what it is now, and if I owned Spain and Hades. I would sell Spain. ’’ Q ' BEWARE OF THE CAT. Says a Philadelphia surgeon: “Unless a dog be suffering from hy drophobia his bite is easily cured, but the bite of a cat at any time is a serious matter tod will cause death sooner than a wound inflicted by any other animal. A cat’s claws also inflict wounds which may result very seriously.” , HE WAS MISTAKEN. “If I am ever killed, ’’ said a Northern Michigander, as he shouldered his gun the other day, “it will probaably be b/ a falling tree. Nor gun has ever been made to kill me. ’’ In climbing a fence ten rods further on

he shot himself through the heart, The country gun will do if ff given time. ■!' ■ : A 7 ~ " ” : TRY IT ONCE. Put up fifty wooden boxes in a city, none of them in the least resembling mail boxes, and paint AHE each one the sign : “This box is for coal orders—drop no mail in here," and inside of forty-eight hours over 100 letters designed for the mails will be pushed into them. It’s a way people have. ' SOME OFFSETS. No less than three ‘ ‘captains" are preparing to cross the Atlantic in small boats next summer, and each one is getting lots of free drinks on the strength of his assertions. The more idiots who take this road the fewer there will be left to go over Niagara Falls or apply to the lunatic asylums. want ’em bad. A Pennsylvania man advertised that he Was poor, knee-sprung, homely and cross, but wanted a wife, and in response received fifty-four lettersfromwomcnwhosatdthey’tf take him. No man. no matter what sort of a house has fallen upon him, need be discouraged in facing the matrimonial world. THEY STICK. One American manufacturer ships 1,000 lumber Wagons to South Amer - ica every year, and yet the natives come into cities like Buenos Ayres with carts of the same style and make as were used 1,000 years ago. It takes one yoke of oxen to draw even an empty cart, but the people don’t care to experiment.