Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1892 — THROUGH THE CONDENSER. [ARTICLE]

THROUGH THE CONDENSER.

Tn the JJnited States there are 673,643 free Masons and 672,337 Odd Fellows. Hyphenated names are increasing among New York fashionable people at a rate that suggests a fad. Five states are represented in Congress by persons riot born within theif limits: lowa, Nebraska, Kansas' New Hampshire, and Minnesota. Ffee baths are advocated in St. Louis as a means of preventing the loss of about forty boys who annually drown in the Mississppi at that point. Anent the chance of death in war a carefully deduced calculation at the battle of Solferino, a bloody engagement, shows that 700 bullets were expended for every man? wounded and 4,200 for each man killed. Belgium now has 133,000 voters; a household suffrage would raise the number to 900,000; giving the suffrage to all who can read and write would raise it to 1,110,000, and universal suffrage would mean 1,500,000 voters.

The British government is building two gunboats for service on Lake Nyassa. The presence of the armed vessels on the lake will be of material assistance in arresting the slave trade at one of its' greatest sources. Gunboats already patrol Lake Tanganyika for the same purpose. Aiidrew Jackson’s old home at the Hermitage, near Nashville, is still just as he left it. ' Among the relics which the house contains are the pistols of Gen. a wooden pitcher, made and presented by the coopers of Philadelphia from the elm under which Penn concluded his treaty with the Indians, and a bayonet, around which a root had grown, from the battlefield of New Orleems.