Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — A STRING OF CURIOS. [ARTICLE]

A STRING OF CURIOS.

In Lapland dresS fashions have not changed for 1,000 years. There are about 120,000 hairs on the head Of a man—if he is not balds According to Chinese reckoning the present \ ear is the year 7,910,341. ’ The largest barometer yet made has been put in working order at the Jacques tower in Paris. It is fortyone feet five inches high. The life of a locomotive crank pin, which is almost the first thing about an engine to wear out, is 60,000 miles, and the life of a thirty-three inch wheel is 66,733 miles. A Scotch terrier is a regular deadhead on the West Shore Railroad, and will only ride on a first-class train. He spends his whole time traveling and is well liked by railroad men. A crocodile which had “taken the pledge,” was recently shot on the Daintree River," Queensland. The jreature’s stomach contained aFather Mathew temperance medal dated 1880. An Oregon man claims to have a nen that has established a nest in the center of his flower garden in the most conspicuous part ot his front yard, and deposits an egg regularly every day except Sunday. The heat produced from the light of a firefly is only 1 per cent, of an equal amount of candle light, The bug’s light is produced by a chemieal ac|ion, as it is increased by putting the fly in oxygen anddiminished in an atmosphere of nitrogen.