Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1892 — OUT OF THE ORDINARY. [ARTICLE]

OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

London has over 700,000 houses inside its city limits. The lawyers get $658,000 of the $923,788 paid by the city of New Orleans to the Myra Clark Gaines estafeT Foim-fifths cf the engines now working in the world have been constructed during the last twenty-five years. There have been t wen tv seven coses of insanity in the Bavarian royal family dating the last one hundred years. Chinese paper currency is in red, white and yellow, with guilt lettering and gorgeous little hand-drawn devices. John is said to have written the gospel which bears his name at sixty, and the Book of Revelations at ninety five. The baby clothes made by Mrs. John Adams for her son, John Quincy Adams, will be oh exhibition at.the world's fair. Louisiana was named in honor of Louis XIV, of France, and was formerly applied to the French possessions in the Mississippi valley. Twenty-five per cent, of the women of England earn their own living. There are nearly 350 female blacksmiths in that country.

As a rule married men live longer than bachelors; yet out of everyone thousand persons in England more than six hundred are unmarriedPortsmouth, N. H., bears the proud distinction as the place where the first newspaper was established in this country. This was in 1756. Glass type is now used for printing. The jjlhss Is of the malleable kind, and the type is said to make clearer work and last longer tha» that made from metal. Cne of the natural curiosities & Asia is the Great Salt Desert of Persia. It is many miles in extent, and is a solid incrustation of salt several feet thick. ■' ■ Nearly all the small silver coins o! Cuba have holes in them. The holes serve to keep the coins in that uountry, os they do not affect theii changeable value there.