Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1892 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

When terrified an r .trich travels at the rate of about, twenty-five miles an hour. - - In India the native barber will shave you when asleep without Waking,you, so light is his touch. More than twenty-six thousand persons have been divorced in. the State of Connecticut since 1860. The total value of matches made annually throughout the world represents a value of $185,000,000. Europe consumes upward of $30,000,000 worth of gold and silver annually for plate, jewelry and ornaments. Headache almost always yielde to the simultaneous application of hot water tp the feet and the back of the head. The license law of Sweeden forbids any person buying drink without purchasing something to eat at the same time. A Florida boy is making a map of his State f eaoh county being a separate piece of native woodT'for the World's Fair. - Jgortsmouthf *N. -H. r bears the proud distinction as the place where the first newspaper was established in this epuntry,- This was in Mprb people were executed in-En-gland during the reign of.KingJleh"-’ ry VIII than eyer before or Smee in the tight tittle the number reaching 71,400. Manufacturers of obituary monuments iff the United States have the right to remove their handiwork from graves in the event oMts-tfot being paid for within six months***-'' Women are net-permitted to sit in the body of the Temple Church of London, because many hundreds of years ago ffifT scats were reserved for the monkish knights, for whom the church was built. A clock maker of Warsaw will send to the Chicago World’s Fair a clock representing a railway station, in which all the circumstances of the arrival and departure of a train, including whistle, bells, rattle of carriages, etc., are repeated with wonderful fidelity every quarter of an hour. The smallest pony in the worid recently arrived in the world on the famous Shetland pony farm on the island of Bressay. It is a little colt foal that weighed but sixteen pounds and was only nineteen and a half inches high at its birth. It is a perfectly healthy, well formed animal. From an ancient account book resurrected at Eastport, Me., it appears that in 1797 tobacco was sold by the yard in that settlement. The limited purchasing pMver of a day’s wages at the period is shown by the price of nails—ls 2id per pound. A day’s i ordinary wages would pay for about 1 four pounds of nails. .