Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

New York bias a Japanese carpenter. - . ' Albany, N. Y., will not employ fat firemen. Alaska has exported $4,000,000 in precious metals. A horse sold for a dollar at an Allentown (Pa.) auction. A woman drummer of San Francisco takes orders for a tobacco house. A man’s experience is either something he has or something that has him. Suppe, the musician,has celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as a composer. The North German Lloyd has ths largest fleet of any company, twelve vessels. There are within the present city limits of Milwaukee 30,000 lots unoc* copied. — —7 tt Sea gulls in larger numbers than for years appear off the coast of Massachusetts.

The national museum of Brazil has eome into possession of an 11,800pound aarolite. There were 642,000 Russians sentenced to Siberian exile between the years 1807 and 1881. An address issued to voters in Chicago recently was printed in eight different languages^ An old lady of New Haven, Conn., collected 1,000,000 postage stamps within six months. On the cruise of Vanderbilt’s yacht in the Mediterranean a wave deposited on its deck a seventy-five-pound turtle. There are now 943 submarine cables exclusive of the seven Atlantic cables, with an aggregate of 112,740 nautical railes. A Kansas woman placed a revolver to her drunken husband s head the other night and made him sign the temperance pledge. A saloon opposite the postoffice in Topeka, Kas., existed for seven years without being discovered by the authorities until recently.

A man run over by a train at Lancaster exclaimed: “If Im goin to die, give me a chew of tobacco first, r—Philadelphia Record. Expenses of legislative committees of investigation represent for th<. last ten years a charge on the State pf New York of $500,000. Forty-eight inmates of the insane asylum on Blackwell s Island, New York, are rehearsing for a farce, which they will soon produce. A New York woman recently refused a present of a handsome set of books because they did not match the color of her library furniture. A resident of Mebanes, N. C., found the other day in a second-hand mattress, which he had used for a year, a wad of bank notes aggregate mg sl,Oll. D. M. Hart, one of W.’ M. Evart s private secretaries, is a negro. He is a graduate of Harvard College and a young lawyer of more than average ability. A Douglas county (Kansas) farmfci’ was compelled to use four horses the other day to haul twenty bushels of corn to Lawrence, but he receivedsl a bushel for it.

At Ovid, Ind., recently the public school closed with an old-fashioned exhibition. The exercises were opened with prayer, which was followed by a five-round glove contest. "Major Pond, Mr. Stanley’s man* ager, is something of a discoverer himself. He is discovering, among other things, that there are a great many towns throughout the country that will not or can not pay SI,OOO to hear his star. The late Mrs, Astor had a' lace dress which cost $15,000, and it is stated that aaother was recently sold to an American lady for $20,000. There are a number of ladies itt : New York who each own laces valued at from $20,000 to $60,000 It is said that once a certain person’ asked Robert Browning as to the meaning of one of his poems. The poet started to explain &nd said its meaning was so and so. Then he stopped explaining and said: “lam not certain what 1 meant. Ask the Browning Society. It knows.” Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of “Robert Elsmere,” is busily at work finishing the new book which is to appear about Christmas. Its motives will be the aspirations of a workingman after culture. Mrs. Ward is said to have gained some hints from the life of Robert Chambers. The late Gen. Albert Pike conducted deep researches into ancient Aryan literature in pursuit of hints of early Masonic practices. The seventeen quarto volumes of translation which are the fruit of this labor are in manuscript, written in an elegant manner upon fine paper. There is not a blot or an erasure from one end to the other, and the writing, done with a quill pen of the old-fashioned kind, is like copper-plate Each volume numbers one thousand pages. Father Ignatius is still in this country, but just fails es becoming an actual sensation. He meets witn a variety of treatment at the hands of the Protestant Episcopacy. The bishops of Rhode Island, Boston, and Long Island refused him admittance to the Episcopal churches of their dioceses. Bishop Potter, of New, Yprfc, however, made him welcome. The monk now goes from Washington to Philadelphia, and Bishop Whitaker denies nim the use of hi church on the ground that the monk is not a priest and has no credentials Father Ignatius calls himself “a high Catholic of the church ot England.",