Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — HISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

HISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

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Major Stofah is a fat and frolic- .. some bachelor, who still loves to linger in the dangerous light of youth and beauty. Not long ago he was lingering about half-past ll o’clock when the young woman’s father returned from down town. “Ah, Mr, Wilkins,” observed the Major effjn sively, “you get in late." “Weif” said Wilkins ungraciously, “I can’t, get in quite as late as you get out," aqd he went on up stair leaving the Major with a bad tasts in his mouth. —Detroit Free Press. Borne Australian hlacks who were imported for show purposes and are detained at San Francieco, are wonderfully clever with the boomerang. One of their most interesting performances is the throwing of the boomerang so as to describe tbeflgure 8. One line crosses the other aa quick as a flash, ana the boomerang, K°T having proare faster than that of a firing fishS and it strikes at the end of Its journey with tremendous force. The Baldah Indians, of British Columbia, gamble with stleks of spruce wood, about five inches in length, carved or stained with totemic devices. The game is played by any number of persons. A “dealer” sits on the ground, with a pile of shredded cedar bark in front of him. and with much ceremony draws out the sticks, one by one, without looking at them, and passes them to the players in turn, who sits in front of him. Each devices counts a certain number, and the winning Is by high or low, or difinite or specific amounts.' small New Yorker, but nourished in I a free-thinking family she has absorbed the agnostio theories of her elders; has decided opinions of her own—in short, is an out-and-out small atheist. For some time past she has been much interested fa ill little recent acquaint from the child. Being pressed for explanation she at last gave it “Well, I’ll toll you why. I just^can so hSl°”—New York Sim" The latest novelty in the dramatic line is a play in which cannibals are to be a feature, when produced at? ; Vienna. Its author is Mr. West*! mark, who has lived In Africa, an# his play, “Among the Anthropophagi, is an attempt to put on the stage something approximetlng what he has seen in Africa. Stanley and Deßraza are among the characters, and if they are true to life they will certainly have a quarrel before the plav ends. The action commences in Brussels wish.Jhe departure of explorers bound for the Congo. There are scenes at Leopoldville and Other stations, but the crowning event is a battle with cannibals.