Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Plowing by steam is on trial in Minnesota. “ - Co-operative colonies are,, increasing in the West. The population of all India amounl to about 284,000,000. There are about twenty thousand cash girls in New York. A Cincinnati lady received a horned frog through the mail recently. The average waist measure of New York ladies is said to be 25J inches. San Xavier, Ariz., has a thirteenyear old boy who weighs 350 pounds. Eighty-year-old David Flory, oi Lawn, Pa., has a twenty-year-old cat as a companion. - A child is said to have been born recently in Oregon with a well-devel-oped dorsal fin. Senator Vest, of Missouri wears boots with old-fashioned high heels that run down to a point.

A farmer in Chase county. Kansas, has a-cornfield in which the roWs are three-fifths of a mile long. Souvenir spoons have been designed to commenorate every important event of American history. John Brown's oldest son, who is a grape grower of Kansas, will not sell his fruit for wine making. The Naval Department’s cipher cost $5,000, and is one of the most intricate and secure in the world. It is estimated that the loss f fom forest firest in Michigan and Wisconsin this spring will amount to SB,OOO, • 000. A fine pussy cat in a Chester, Pa., family jumped for a rat, caught its neck ribbon on a nail and strangled to death. The grave dug to receive the body of William P. Weidner, of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, was eleven feet long and nine feet wide. The man on stilts (Dornorn) who set out to walk from Paris to Moscow, reached the Russian town on the 10th of May, and was received with enthusiasm. An English head servant gave notice that he would leave the diningroom during the family repast and thus losing the dinner stories. A colored girl of the high-school ol St. Joseph, Mo., received a prize for an essay on the subject, “What Would Have Happened Had Columbus ntt Discovered America.” Mrs. Smith to the nurse —Rosa, you must really take better care ol the children. Here you have gone and let poor little Arthur bite his tongue again.—Fliegende Blatter. An epitaph in a provincial cemetery in France runs as follows: Here lyeth Madame X my wife. She suffered a good deal. But it is nothing to what I had to go through. 'The Press Club of Brussels intends to. give a medieval tourney, with all proper appurtenances, knights in armor, heralds at arms,galleries with ladies, caparisoned horses, and the rest. A Brooklyn maniac jumped iuto a buggy, wrested the reins from the owners hands; and got the horses into a mad run before the driver coqjd overreach him. Policemen stopped the horses.

The present freshman class of Princeton College has decided to * abandon hazing and greet next year’s freshman class with a banquet instead of the old-time nightly visitation. Forsyth county, in Georgia, has developed an infantile prodigy, who at four years of age can read difficult music correctly at sight. His voice is soft and tuneful and he bids fair to become famous. Mrs. Tinkham, of Eagle Point, Mich., was fondling a pet dog when her pet cat in a jealous rage pounced upon her and cut her about the arms and head with teeth and claws until beaten off. Mrs. Mary Coursen, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., has just buried her sixth husband. They were all ex-soldiers of the war, all pensioners, and all died from the effects of injuries received in service. Colored men digging the foundations for a hotel at Canton, Miss, the other day discovered a large jar containing over SIO,OOO in gold. The treasure is supposed to have been buried during the war. When the postal officials sent to Adrian, Mich., the pay due a young man who was kill-acl in the recent Lake Shore accident near Cleveland, they deducted 25 cents for the unfinished part of the run. Henry Phillips, an Alaskan boy, who came to Carlisle, Pa., some four years ago, will leave for Sitka in a few weeks to take charge of the North Star, a paper published by the Sitka Indian training school. Sarah Bernhardt’s completely astounded bell boys and servants of the California Hotel. . To the waiting maid who attended her the divine gave two twenty-dollar pieces, and on the garcon who served her meals she conferred four twenties. “I ain’t going to send any more money out to tne heathen,” said Willie. “I seen a picture of one of’em this mornin’, an’, as far as I could see, he didn't wear any pants, an’ so hasn’t any pockets to carry the money in." —Epocn. A New York wholesale merchant says that he cheerfully puts up with the sharp practice of his travelers, Avho pad their expense accounts, because the sharper the drummer is in that respect, as a rule, the more custom he brings to the house.