Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1892 — SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

The cost of making a one dollar bill is about 3 2-10 mills. The palace at Versailles, France, which Louis XVI built, cost $40,000,000. Addisoh Moore, colored, of Meridian, Miss., who died recently, was claimed to be 131 years old. Once every eight ygara- all the locks on the United States mail bags are changed to insure safety. It is said that only five passengers were killed on all the railways of Great Britain and Ireland during the whole of last year. Grasshoppers attain their greatest size in South America, where they grow to a length of five inches and their wings spread out ten inches. A blood beet measuring fifteen inches in length, fourteen inches in circumference and weighing four pounds, is a curiosity of St. Tammany, La.

The Romans used the first shaving brush and razor, B. C. 300, and Pliny tells uS that Scipio Africanus was the first individual Roman who shaved daily. The largest child in Connecticut for her years is said to be the six year old daughter of J. L. Humphrey, ofTorrington. She weighs 125 -The School Board of St. Paul, Minn., has abolished the distinction of sex in the matter of salaries, and will hereafter pay women the same as men for doing the same wqrk. In the Oriental department of the British Museum a tablet has been deciphered as containing an offer of marriage made by a Pharaoh to a daughter of the King of Babylon about 1530 B. C. ■ The Emperor of China does not stir much in wet weather. This is due in part to the fact that it takes ten men to carry his umbrella, and it is difficult to get them away from table all at once. While, according to European and American returns, the number of women always exceeds that of the men,the reversh is the case in Japan, where for every one hundred men there are only women, . It is a custom of the Carpenters’ Union of San Francisco to build houses for one another without charging anything for their labor. The owner supplies the land and materials and the carpenters do the rest.

A German biologist says that the two sides of a face are never alike ; in two cases out of five the eyes are out of line ; one?eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten ; and the right ear is generally higher than the left. The largest Masonic library in the world and the only one occupying a building of its own is in Cedar Rapids, la. It contains 12,000 volumes, and is in charge of Theodore S. Parvin, who for nearly fifty years has been grand secretary and librarian of lowa. The Maoris believed in the immortality of the soul long before the arrival of the missionaries: but the spirit land to which they imagined all men journeyed after death was as grossly material as the ‘’happy hunting grounds ” Of the North American Indians. ; The American Bible Society .having learned from experience that the 8,000,000 Sunday, school children within the scope of its influence care nothing for tracts and leaflets, has decided to try the effect of giving an entire Bible to every youngster that will accept one. Put a buzzard in n pen about six feet square and open at the top, and it is as much a prisoner as tboughjt were shut up in a box. This is because buzzards always begin their flight by taking a short run, and they either can not or will not attempt to fly unless they can do so.