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

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Sedalia, MoV. has a pack which no body can get;to. Maud Evans, of Beaver falls, Pa. ; who is only sixteen years of age, has a third set of natural teeth. A Wichita (Kas. )man proved up th< first claim in Oklahoma, and sold it the other day for $1,600. Of the 2,328 fires in Massachusetts last year, kerosene caused 255, - matches 262 and electric wires 21. One million dollars of gold cois weighs 3,865 pounds advoirupois; of silver coin, 58,920.9 pounds. Waiter —You owe me quarter, boss. Guest —What for? Waiter —Changin’ that dime.—Munceys Weekly. The English flag floats over onesixth of the population and one-eighth of the habitable globe. There is a man in this city who makes a handsome living regulating self-regulating clocks —-New York Recorder- -» A six-vear-old boy at Hantsport, N. S., fell forty-three feet into a well containing but little water and es. caped with a few scraches. A sheriff at Gadsden, Ala.,allowed part of a jury under his care to visit a saloon and drink beer. His indiscretion cost him a fifty dollar fine. A palace barber shop at Cameron, Mo., advertises: “A screen arounq one of our chairs, which protects la* dy patrons from the scrutiny of pas-sers-by.” Two Japanese mining are traveling among the coal mines in Pennsylvania studying American mining methods, which they desire to apply to the development of the coal deposits of Japan. Ex-Governor Boyd, of has had strange experiences for an alien. He has repeatedly held office, has been Mayor of Omaha, andaeteq as Governor of Nebraska, only find at the end of a long official esu reer that he was never a citizen ol the United States, and that many oi all of his official acts may be void. He believed that his father was a naturalized citizen before he was o) age.

A short distance out from Buena Vista, Cal., there is a cave literally swarming with spiders of a curious species and of immense size, some oi them having legs four inches long and a body as large as that of aca nary bird. The cave was discovered in December, 1879, and was often r& sorted to by the pioneers, who obtained the webs for use in place ol thread. Early and late the cave constantly resounds with a buzzing noise, which is emitted by the spiders while they are weaving their netting. The late Professor Joseph Leidy, of Philadelphia, and his brothei Philip, bequeathed their brains to the Anthropometric Society, of which the Professor was a founder and the first president, and which numbers among its members Phillips Brooks, Dr. William Pepper, and eminent anatomists and croniologists all ovei the country. “The brains of thetwc brothers,” a Philadelphia newspapei tells us, “were of the same weight to a fraction of a grain. Both were noticeably below the normal size, confirming the deduction of anatomisti that quality of tissues rather than quantity distinguishes the valuable brain from the ignorant.” Certain clubmen were discussing the fee of $260,000 that William N, Cromwell received as assignee in settling the business of Decker. Howel] & Co., and one man, a merchant,said that he thought the fee was a tremendous one for eight week’s wqrk. “Sc it was,” said a lawyer, “the biggesl that any man ever got. But it wai legitimate and correct. The law allowed it, and in my opinion it is always right to do or to take what thi law allows. The statutory allowance is five per cent, on all moneys paid in or disbursed. Mr. Cromwell gos $260,000, but $5,000 a year is a fail estimate of what the average assignee receives in New York, while outside the large cities the work of an assignee makes more trouble than money for the man who performs it.’ 1

“I was pretty forcibly reminded ol a law of physics as to the rapidity with which heat will pass through glass the other day.” said a New Yorker yesterdayjust returned from a trip to the West. “Our train Eassed near one of the great foresi res raging in nothern Pensylvania. I was in a parlor car. The windows were double, and were of heavy plate glass, and with so much force that J felt as though a white-hot mass ol iron had passed within a few feet of my face. All the passengers who had been looking out of the windows, eager to witness the spectacle recoiled as though we had received a slap in the face.” Resident South Americans in this town are European rather than American in their social sympathies. Many of them have been educated in Europe, and they seem to sympa thize with aristocratic rather *than democratic institutions. Even the Haytian negroes that occasionally come to town are a different order oi beings from the folk of their own race in Thompson street. They are frequently keen in company with whites, they generally dine at "French restaurants, and their whole bearing is that of men unconscious of .race distinction. The few Americans pres* ent in a restaurant of the French quarter were astonished one night to see a coal-black negro presented by several French naval officers to th« ladies of their party. The negro was thoroughly at ease, and when he rose to leave the restaurant in company with a white companion, he shook hands with the Frenchmen and their party.—New York Son. v