Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

Ten days per annum is the average amount of sickness in human life. A Wilbur (Wash.) man is proud of two strawberries, one nine and a half inches and the other eight inches in circumference. John M. Evitt reports seeing a buzzard with a bell on its neck near Ringgold, Ga., recently. The bird is quite a large one. and the tinkling of the bell could be heard a considerable distance. After the 23d of this month no person or firm doing business in South Carolina will be permitted to sell a pistol, or even a pistol cartridge, in that State without first taking out a license and paying S2OO for it. Fields Martin, who lives near Flowery Branch. Ga., has worn a coat only a few times since the surrender of Gen. Lee. He says he feels more comfortable without one. no matter how cold the weather is. 1 A cave-in on the farm of J. 11. Miller, eighteen miles from Sedalia, Mo., at the head of Lake Creek, revealed an underground river.. The water is twenty-five feet deep, and the stream is very rapid. Queen Victoria now rules, subject to the wholesome limitations of the British Constitution, over a popula tion scattered in the four quarters of the globe and the islands of the sea. aggregating 367,000,000, a greater number than has ever acknowledged the sovereignty of one person in ancient or modeni times. A prospector in the Mingo moun tains, up near Kettle Falls, Wash.. a few days ago. came aeoss a peeu liar animal with three small cubs. He struck the old one with a rope, whereupon she ran away, and he cap tured the cubs, which he brought in to town. They have the form of; cougar, with the head of a bull-dog