Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Tactls hypocrisy in its most delightful form. The last Irish census shows 2,317,076 males and 2.389,086 females, a total decrease for a decade of 468, • 674, attributed mainly to emigration. The explosion of a dynamite cartridge to blow up an old ship near Mobile sent to the surfaces jew-fish that weighed more than 200 pounds. Visitor—“ Well, Johnny, I suppose your father thinks the twins are something wonderful.” Johnny—- “ Yes. but (in a confidential whisper) I cotifd lick ’em both together.” A Chicago man has applied for a license to run a bar room on wheels. His scheme is to sell beer and sandwiches from a wagon, which he will drive ground to places where outdoor laborers are employed. A Fort Worth, Tex., man says that he has the largest madstone in the world. It is nearly as large as a hen’s egg and was taken, he says, by his father from the stomach of a white deer found dead in the Ocark Mountains. What yachtsmen would call two ,ong legs were made by the schooner Bertha Louise in her recent voyage from St. John, N. 8.. to Barbadoes -no return. She made the voyage ach way, about 2,000 mills, without making a tack. Dr. McGlynn is still a familiar figure about town. His still black hair is far more heavily tinged with gray than when he was a priest, and he s *ems even less careful to be always seen in slightly-worn clothing. But his spirits are as high as ever, and he keeps the same kindly eye and amiable and smiling face that h« wore a dozen or two dozen years ago. Charles Stewart Parnell, by marrying Mrs. O’Shea, has done his pool host to repair the wrong he did her. He has done nothing to repair the vrong he has done Ireland. In the forum of morals the former was the worst offense. At the bar of public opinion the latter is the graver ’.rime. He might have survived the ne; neither his countrymen at home ior the friends of his country abroad .re likely to forgive or forget the >ther.

A. J. McKeown, son of the million'ire oil producer. John McKeown, is •robably the richest young man in ’ennsvl vania. He enjoys a princev income which he spends with a avish hand. In his younger days ’is father offered him SIO,OOO to stop smoking cigarettes, and subsequent'v raised the amount to $20,000, with the understanding that the boy should abstain from the use of tabac•o in any form. The offer young McKeown refused. Eri Gray, who is said to be nearly 108 years bid, was recently taken rom his cabin near Roxbury to the Delaware county poorhouse. On the way the poormaster stopped with his charge for dinner. After the meal he asked the centenarian if he was ready to continue the journey, whereupon the old fellow replied: “Not vet, until I get a good ten-cent cigar, rs I am going to the poorhouse I 'hall not go like a pauper, but like a gentleman.” The cigar was handed him and the old man lit it and puffed away with evident relish. The new tariff has brought to mind the fact that what is called marbled paper is not made in this country. It all comes from Europe, and is made without machinery, in th 6 oldfashioned wav. It is that beautifully but irregularly mottled paper which bookbinders use on the inside oi book covers and for the outer flyleaves. Manufacturers of paper boxes and of sample cards also use it, and altogether it is imported to the value of half a million dollars a year. Arthur Wilson, who is said to have loaned a million dollars to the Prince of Wales, is one of the two sons of Thomas Wilson, the founder of the famous shipping business at Hull, and altogether a self-made man. With capital courage and a high degree of Cold blood the Wilson brothers are said to have crushed all opposition and controlled the trade they wanted. They developed what was left by their father until it has become an immense business, including several lines of steamers. It is said that the brothers divided $25,000,000 in profits last year, but it is said that the sum was nowhere near that j figure. As far as the shipping business is concerned it has become a | stock company capitalized at £2,000,000, and mainly owned by the brothers. Both men are active in public affairs, and both are more or less brusoue in manner and awkward in speecn. A device which is intended to serve as a check upon the speed at which engineers undertake to pass curves and other difficult points, has been advised by M. Sabouret, who is engineer to the Orleans Railway of France. This instrument, according to London Engineering, consists of a tuning fork provided with a point which inscribes a curve on the smoked surface of a cylinder which is rotated by suitable mechanism. This is fixed at any desired part of the line, and as the train passes the engine move a treadle, which cummunicates by means of an india rubber tube with the instrument and set in motion. Six meters further is a second treadle, which, on being depressed by the wheels, stops the mechanism, and the speed of the trail] Can then be obtained with an erroi of less than 2 per cent, even when the speed is as much as 60 miles an hour, by counting the vibrations of the fork as recorded on the revolving cylinder.—Master Mechanic.