Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

A horned rabbit is the curiosity o! the day at Akron, Ohio. The Pennsylvania Railroad systere employs 7,671 engineers. A Montreal judge has decided thal a hotel cook is not a domestic servant. There are now 19,373 newspapers of different classes in the United States and Canada, a net gain o? 1,613 over last year’s record. Two more young lions have beer born in the Berlin Zoological Gardens. As the mother refuses to nurse them they are suckled by a big Newfoundland.

A Liberty County, Georgia, mar has found oysters growing at the bottom Of his sixty-foot well, and actually has some of the shells to show his neighbors. A-cow being driven through tin streets of Hannibal, Mo., charged or a red coat hanging on a post, entangled her horns in it, gave a bellow and dropped dead. A New York man, who had bees kicked by a horse and but slightlj injured, sued the owner of the animal for $50,000 and recovered a verdict for $6,5000 recently. When a piece of ice was taken ir July from an ice house filled the previous December melted a little fish was found swimming merrily about in the water. A correspondent of Nature vouches for this fish story. Among the recent inventions is a calender that will register for the next 200 years, besides telling any date figure within that period. A gum moistening apparatus for posaga stamps is also an invention. German railways now aggregate 24,600 miles and employ 12,620 locomotives, 26,008 passenger cars, 556,851 freight cars and6lß,ooo officials and other employes. In 1890 there were 3,088 accidents of all kinds.

A Kansas woman boasts that she never appeared on the street twice within the same week in the same dress. Her husband is wearing a suit this spring which he bought foui years ago and a hat of the vintage 1885. Swiss soldiers are hereafter to be provided with a pocket knife witt four blades, which, besides rendering ordinary service, is to do occasional duty as a ramrod to the new rifle, and as an opener to tinned provisions. A new motor, utilizing ordinary gas as well as petroleum is announced compact in form, requiring little space and no expensive foundations or attendence. In one-half minute’s tim# star ting can be accomplished. The largest grapevine in the world is [that growing in Oys. Portugal, which ha 3 been bearing since 1802. Its maximum yield was *in 1884, ir which year it produced a sufficienl quantity of grapes'to make 165 gallons of wine.

In some parts of Cornwall it is considered unlucky to have any washing done in the house between Christmas and New Year’s Day, the superstitious believing that if a washing takes place some of the family will bt washed out of life. Ornithologists tell us that when feeding the stride of the ostrich is from twenty to twenty-two inches, when walking but not feeding, twern ty-six]inches,and when terrified, frpm eleven and one-half to fourteen fe£t, or at the rate of about twenty-five miles an hour. There is a horse on a farm in South Dakota which has eight feet; otherwise it is perfectly formed in every respect. Not until the fetlock join is reached in the descent from the, shoulder to the foot is there any difference between this horse and any other.