Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1892 — WINGED MISSILDS. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILDS.

Grecian shoes were peculiar in to the middie of the legs. . \ The present fashion of shoes was introduced into England in 1683. Mme. Bernhardt says she has never reled with her dress-maker. Chicago has a newspaper called die Liar. It has a large constituency at home. Crackers and sweet goods made outside of Syracuse are boycotted by the Syracuse bakers. A western newspaper says that “the Czar was not accompanied to Berlin by the Czardine." A report from New York fashionable circles says hats will be large and bonnets very small The Bennington (Vt) battle monument is now a trifle higher than Bunker Hill monument Some Pittsburg engineers struck to have a man prepare . the engine ready for use each morning. Mrs. Curtis, nee Louisa AL Knapp, is . said to receive $10,003 a year for editing the Ladies’ Home Journal. There is undesigned humor in the remark of a Berlin correspondent that “the Czar of Russia is rather bombastic.” “A vocal singing club” has too much noise in it and is companion to tiro' expressions, “Orally by the word of mouth.” A Providence, R. 1., concern will soon be able to turn out machinery tor steam purposes representing 150 h. p. per day. The antiquity of the watermelon is thoroughly established. Seeds found in Egyptian tombs were estimated to be 3,000 year* old. Some one who professes to have taken the population of the diamond field says there are 3*0,000 ball players in this coun try. Shoes among the Jews were made of leather, linen, rush, or wood; soldiers’ shoes were Eometltpes made of brass or iron. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain says that she wants to visit this country before she dies. The American tiger is quite an animal* Bella. The empress of Japan has just taken po»session of her palace which has cost $1,000,-. 000. She proposes w visit America next* spring. Tke Shah found his harem in a state of disorder on his return to Persia. He now wishes fle had remained in Europe permanently. '. j,. ... .' “How do you fellows dissolve barbed wire?” asked a Texas delegate of a Topeka druggist, after taking a drink of Kansas whisky. An enormous eagle recently alighted on a house in Monongalia county, W. Va., but flew away before the owner could hunt up his shotgun, —Buffalo Bill has been invited to Russia and accepted. Dynamite has no terrors for a man who was brought up on the frontier with buffaloes. Speaking of the “Ureat City Snoba," Thackeray says: “Intimacy is impossible, in most cases, with these grave, pompous and awful beings.” Mme. Patti-Nicolinl sails for New York, Nov. 23. Meantime she is to sing in eight concerts in England, for which she will receive nearly $30,000. Mr. Tyron of Ballston. Ore., celebrated recently his one hundredth birthday. He settled in Oregon in 1852 and has seventyeight direct descendants. Jules Verne is going to write a drama. His imagination will have to be tied down to the requirements of the stage if he succeeds. But Jules is versatile. In Paris the dramshops have increased from 24,003 in 1880 to 29,')d) at the present time. The consumption of aleohol has trebled in the last thirty years. The Prince of XV ales will make a tour of Egypt Perhaps he will be engaged to write a Bible story for the syndicate founded an.the “JSpngs of Solomon.” The largest steam hammer in the United States is now in operation at tho Latrobe Steel works. It weighs twenty tons, and is arranged to strike u blow with the forsa of eighty tons. In the reign of William Rufus of England in the eleventh century, a great beau, “Robert, the Horney,” used shoes with sharp points stuffed with tow, and twisted likO rams’ horns. Hugo Zieman, the disgruntled cAe/ of the White House, has a long list of griovauccs, but the most important of them lies iu the fact that President Harrison insists upon eating pie at every moal. Near Silverton, Oro., Is a quarry of what is called “fire-place stone,” it is soft whoa mined, and can be sawed or choppad in any desired shape, and when subjected to intense heat does not seem to be affected. At Blountsville, Ala., George Smith, aged seventy-two, was tried before a jury of twelve in the circuit court, and found guilty of an assault and fined S2O for khsing his eighteen-year-old niece, Anuio Slaughter. Henry Apple owns a small mining claim in Sierra county, New Mexico, that has paid him slß,6ooin five months, lie employs one man, and the ore is crushed in a handmortar. Apple Is pleased with tho fruit of his labor. Evon an utiprogresslve iourual in China leads a checkered career. The Pekin Gazette asserts been beheaded. The journal !n question claims to have been in exLkmco lor a thousand years. Senator Sherman Is a cautious mwi aveu in his literary habits. He hasadop:ed Emerson’s rulo aud will not read a bor.k until it is a year old. This system strictly adhered to would save much useless “wear and tear” of the eyes. - j Birmingham, Eng., employs 1,000 umbrella makers. One of them claims to have invented a transparent umbrella that will allow the boaror to seo what bd or site is about to run Into, as woli ns what is- about to run into him or her. Melssionier recently said to a lady, who remarked upon visiting his new i>ouso that she had missed pictures of hip own from among the beautiful things with which ho had adorned his rooms: “Ah, maoamc, they are too dear to allow mo to keep them.” A Toronto (Ont) man was In Aliadolphia and bought a ticket for home, stating that he wanted to ge via Letv.stou. He meant Lo wis ton, N. Y., and when ho awoks in I.ewiston. Me., next day hd was tho maddest man that down cast city has scon tor • month. . . The Romans made use of two kinds of shsos—the solo, or sandal, which covered tho sole of the foot and was worn at homo and in company, and tho calceus, which severed ths whole foot and was always worn with the toga when a poison went abroad.