Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

In sections of Florida cabbages are being given away for cattle feed, such a drug are they-on the market. The Declaration of Independence * was read at Graham, Mo., July 4, by a little girl only seven years old. An ex-policeman, who has done ten years* duty in one of the large cities of the east, declares that he has never seen a baldheaded tramp. A young man who was barely able to read and write when he went to the Kansas penitentiary, some years ago, now teaches the highest class in that institution. A horse belonging to John Burtless, of Tipton, Mien., was found to be coverea with honey bees the other day, a fire had to be built to remove them. The horse may die. One of the gardeners of Bayou Sara, in Louisiana, has produced a potato that weighs twenty-seven pounds, and he now proposes to rest on his laurels until his competitors catch up with that. When the owner of a pet dtrnkey in Jackson, Tenn., purchased a rival and installed it on bis farm the jealous original pet resented the intrusion by braying sjo loud that it burst a blood vessel and died. A resident of Monroe City, Mo., has recovered SIOO from a man who tied his mules to a handsome maple shade tree belonging to the villager, letting the mules bark and kill the tree, it being one his grandfather planted. An old ranchman in Harney VaR ley, Ore., has been in the habit of hauling his daily supply of water from eighty miles away, in order to save digging a well. He oould secure an abundance of water ten or twelve feet deep. The catacombs of Romo contain tbo remains of about six million human beings, and those of - Paris about three million. The latter were formerfjTstane quaries. Many of the victims of the revolution of 1792-4 are buried there. A Maine farmer recently sent a 10-cent stamp to a man who advertises to send for that amount the way to run a farm without being troubled with potato bugs. The answer received was as follows: “Plant fruit trees instead of potatoes.’’ Vincent Griest, of Lower Oxford, Pa., witnessed a combat between an owl and a smaller bird, and when the little one seemed to be getting the worst of the battle he went to her assistance. The owl thereupon attacked him and bit him in the arm and face.

An old table in the waiting-roon> of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore depot at Wilmington possesses a peculiar interest for people fond of relics. It is the table on which the body of President Lincoln rested while being conveyed to Springfield. 111., for burial. Two cooks of Ashland, Ore., one a negx-o and the'other a Chinaman, indulged in a novel contest, a few days ago, to see which could clean a chicken in tbo shortest timer The Celestial won in twenty seconds, and the fowl was still kicking after being denuded of its feathers. The people of Thessaly were the first to break horses for service in war, and their proficiency as equestrians probably first gave rise to the ancient myth that their country was originally inhabited by centaurs, fabulous creatures, supposed to-b 4 half horse and half man. -An eleven-year-old Polish- girlpassed through Scranton, Pa., lasi week. She was from Poland, and traveled the entire distance without a care-taker. Across her shoulder was strung a tag on which was writ* tea: “Direct this girl to Shickshinny oould - speak no English. ,