Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

A New York Hebrew has sued a newspaper for calling him a Christian. He wants $2,500. The aggregate number of wife murders by drunken husbands in the United States since January 1, 1889, is 3,004. On dark nights a white light can _be seen further than any other color; on bright nights red takes the first place. A colored preacher of WaynesboroGa., is circulating a subscription pa, per in order to raise money to buy a set of false teeth. A farmer 1 of Henry county, Ga., claims that for fifteen years he has partaken of nothing in the shape of food or drink except buttermilk. A small iron safe containing about $12,000 worth of diamonds and other precious stones was dredged up from the bottom of the bay at San Francisco the other day. The settings of the jewelry are in the sixteenth century style. The longest bridge in the world is to be built on the estate of Prince Rad ziwill, in East Prussia. It will be of wood and four and three-fifths miles long. It appears by the Cuban census, which has just been taken, that there are now nearly 50,000 Chinese men in Cuba and only eighty-four Chinese women. — ; A curious fact, of which probably few New Yorkers are aware, is that the banking capital of the metropolis is smaller by $2,000,000 than that of Boston. It is costly to die in Mexico. The American friends of a man who died in that country had to pay a native undertaker $931 for his services, which were only ordinary. A ship railway is proposed in France to convey vessels from ti e Atlantic to the Mediterranean without having to go round by way of Gibralter. It will be 280 miles long. The water pump of* to-day is but an improvement on the Grecian indention which first came into use luring the reign of Ptolomies Philidelphos and Energetes, 280 to 221