Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1892 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Horses are dying from the grip in certain parts of Maryland. A Philadelphia Chinaman glories in a pigtail five feet eleven inches in length. A Philadelphian has a garden on his roof, where he grows his own vegetables. The most wonderful thing about a shad is how the meat got in between the bones. There are twenty Representatives in Congress who are under thirty-six years of age. A Camden, N. J.,woman 110 years old, was in attendance at Walt Whitman’s funeral. A Presbyterian pastor at Greenville, 111., has a pulpit made of olive wood from the Mount of Olives. Violin makers prize above all other kinds of wood that which they extract from the seasoned timbers of old houses. The mines of the world produce twenty-five tons of gold every week, but the precious metal remains as rare as ever. / There are over 2,000 tons of silver bars, 55,000,000 silver dollars, and $35,000,000 in gold coin stored in the Philadelphia mint* Little Dave Peterson, of La Belle, Kas., aged about five,died a few days since, from the effects of inhaling a screw into his windpipe fourteen months ago. Living in Creede. the new Colorado mining town, is very expensive. No meal fit to eat can be obtained for less than sl, and lodging is about the same price. The town of Washington, Me., at its annual spring meeting, refused to appropriate any money for a free high school, but voted to establish a liquor agency.

E. R. Watson, of Arcadia, Ga., was made happy last Tuesday night by the return of his milch cow that disappeared over two years ago, during which time he never heard of her. •A New York woman, unwilling tc have her name printed, contributed 1,400,000 slices of fresh bread and honey to one thousand little indus* trial scholars during the past year. Lord Tennyson has for nearly forty years received a pension of about SI,OOO a year from the British government, and he has devoted the whole of it to the relief of authors In distress. English statesmen are beginning to regard Canada as something of a nuisance since the Dominion has involved Great Britain in two of the most serious differences with the United States. This definition better fits some of the Canadian politicians than the country. It is particularly applicable to Mr. Tupper, who seems to be Lord Salisbury’s chief adviser at present.