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

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

About twice as much power is required to stop an express train as to start one. E. A. Howard, of Belfast. Me., has a clock still keeping time that was a" wedding present to his grandfather in the fail of 171*5. George Soliweich. a merchant of Richmond. Mo., owns the table upon which the Book of Mormon was written. He values it at $5.0^)0. Dr. C. F. Rand, of Washington, possesses a curious relic of tl.e rebellion. It is a piece of “ha”d ta.-k' which formed a part of one, of the doctor's ratious thirty years ago Sheriff West, of Camden, N. J..has seized a cemetery lot owned by Jacob Stranger, on an execution issued by J. J. Knight, who secured a judgment against him for s2± Doniphan, Kan., is said to be the only town in the world that had a river and two railroads and lost then' all at a swoop. The shifting of-the Missouri river chaunel did it. □ Three telegraph poles, two fifty feet and one sixty feet,were ut from the same tree at Harlan. Mich., a few days ago. The tree forked about the stump, which was four feet ip diameter. A hotel has been built in Hamburg entirely of compressed wood as ha-d as iron, and rendered absolutely t proof against both fire and the at- [ tacks of insects by subjection to chemical processes.