Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

American railroads employ 8,000,)00 persons. Most of the literary men in France aave pet cats. An old sexton in Helden, Mass., las interred 999 persons.. In Massachusetts there are 708 oriained ministers who are 'Free Masons. ‘ ' Lizzie Horman, a Pittsburg girl, while jumping bit off a large piece of ier tongue. A bayan tree covering betweensix rod seven acres has been discovered in Lord Howe’s Island, Australia. Two men were recently killed by Ihe same train at Ashland,Pa, *ithn a few hundred yards of each other. Strawber—l heard that you teade ro hour's speech at the debating dub. Was it well received? Singerly—They cheered me when I sat Life. A brother of Mark Twain is an ittorney in Keokuk, la, the old jome of the humorist. He is well-to lo financially, and devotes but little time to his profession. Swarms of big flies swooped down an Eastport. Me., "the other affceraoon, making life there miserable !or the time they remained. Where they came from is a mystery. The electric railway between St. Paul and Minneapolis is a government mail route. The electric cars 2arry the mail so that deliveries are made in each city every two hours. Charles Davenport, of Cambridge, Mass., who is said to have built the irst railroad car in the United States ias just started for a tour of Europe He is over eighty years of age. A gun operated by electricity is a recent invention of Edward A. Hyde, Df Kenosha, Wis., • who claims that guns made of paper or wood, and Operated by his system, would be effective at a long range. Emperor Wilhelm usually travels with an iron-bound trunk filled with decorations, which he bestows on those who please him. He will not take it to England, ,as Englishmen can not accept foreign orders.

A swarm of bees entered the cab of a locomotive at Huntington, Pa., last week, drove the engineer and fireman out, and stopped travel on the road until the farmer owning the invaders appeared and effected their removal. A farmer near Yuma City, Cal., complains that eighty tons of hay he had cut was drenched by a heavy rain, while on the opposite side of his farm there was a large field of grain that needed rain but did not get a drop. An investigator of the effect of per fumes on animals in the Zoological garden, London, discovered that most of the lions and leopards were very fond of lavender. They took a piece of cotton saturated with it and held it between their paws with great delight. The Princess of Wales having ordered her photographer to place likenesses of the royal family on a set of her daintiest china, the ideahas been caught up by the public, and all England is engaged in embellishing choice crockery with family likenesses. New York, too, is following suit.

Edison looks when at work like a boy apprentice. His manner and speech are very boyish. But the fire of genius shines in his gray, keen ayes, and the clean-cut nostnls and broad forehead indicate strong mental activity. Though comparatively 'a voung man the occasional gleam of silvery nair tells the story ox his application. The sword which Custer used in his campaigns against the Indians, and which he lost with his life at the battle of the Little Big Horn, is now m the possession of a Chicago man. Its battered hlade is as flexible as whalebone, and looks as if it had oeen through many a hand-to-hand encounter. It is covered with innumerable designs of drums; flags, cannon, and other implements of warfare. The game of baccarat is not the first game of cards that has brought disaster to the fortunes of the Gor-ion-Cumming family. The present baronet’s grandmother had a weakness for whist that led her to play for stakes as high as $5,000 a point. In one night, during a run of illluck, she is said to have lost thirtytwo points, and her husband was compelled to part with a large property to settle the debt. The inheritance of great wealth has not destroyed young Adam Forepaugh’s love for the glitter and spangles of the circus. Though his income is now greater than the President’s salary, the son of the great showman dons his pink tights at every performance and rides in the hurdle race with all the interest of a ten dollar a week supe. Young Forepaugh is thirty years old and built like an athlete. He has had something to do about a circus ring since he was a boy of seven.