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

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

A ton of tomatoes as they come from the field, it is estimated, will fill from 400 to 540 cans. A hundred laying hens produce in eggshell about 137 pounds of chalk or limestone annually. A child with two tongues was born the other day at Huntington, W. Va., Of course it was a female child. In Richmond, Mo., there is a horse which measures 191 hands high and tips the beam at 2,690 pounds. He is five years old. It is said that England has more women workers in proportion to her population than any other country, 12 per cent, of the industrial classes being women. The most valuable dinner service in the world belongs to Queen Victoria, and occupies two rooms at Buckingham Palace, over which two men watch continually. Five brothers from Cape Elizabeth Me., who went into the war and came out unseratched; are all dead; and not one of them died a natural death nor any two in the same State. To vindicate his reputation as an expert wood-carver, a colored man in Hutchinson, Kan., recently in fifteen hours carved a chain nearly six feet out of a solid piece of wood.

A couple living within one mile of Lithonia, Fla., have been married forty years, and the husband affirms that he has never kissed his wife. They are the parents of eleven children. , / -- • Wheat is now carried from Chicago to Buffalo, eight hundred miles by water and 500 hundred in air line, for 1 cent a bushel. For cheap transportation this is probably without a parallel. California has taken an invoice of her giant trees left standing, and finds 2,675. The largest of these is •sixty-nine feet in circumference. Visitors at the world’s fair will see one of them. There is a three-armed deaf and dumb freak in a Wisconsin dime museum who can talk so fast on her fingers that there isn’t a stenographer in the State who can report her verbatim. The total estimated circulation of religious newspapers published in the united States is very near 4,000,000, and Catholics head the list with 120 papers having a circulation of about 750,000. Time thins down the number. The returns of the pensioned veterans who fought under the great Napoleon, who now receive SSO a year, put their number at 112, instead of 180, as in 1888. There are ten main lines of railway centering in London. On these 2,210 suburban trains run in and out daily, while tho main line trains are only about 410. In 1889 the ten lines carried 400,000,000 suburban gers. The smallest screws in the world are used in the manufacture of watches. The screw in the fourth jewel wheel, that looks to the naked eye like a bit of dust, is so small that a lady’s thimble would hold one million of them. Joseph Patton, who lives near Clifton Hill, in Randolph county, | Missouri, still has the pony he rode in the Confederate army. It is now thirty-six years old and is as fat as a mole, not having been used any, or Very little, for some years. A steamer which arrived in London from Auckland recently brought a cargo consisting of forty thousand sheep and two thousand beeves, all dressed and frozen. This is the lar St single cargo of dressed meat t has ever been brought to England Her Way of Putting It.--Miss Bleecker, of New York—" There are bo flies on Mr. Spatts.” Miss Emerson, of Boston —“No; I too hav« failed to detect any specimens of thi mu?ca domestics upon him.”