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

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

There are twenty-seven American merchants in China. The first pipe organ was made by Brchimedes B. G. 220. General Butler was seventy-fom years old last Saturday. Venison is worth from 7 to M cents a pound at Bangor, Me. A full grown elephant is capable of carrying a load of two tons. The British Museum has thirtytwo miles of shelves filled with books. The Cincinnati Hospital Library receives regularly 150 medical journals. A snow white deer was killed on Saturday in Clinton county, Pennsylvania. ' Complete cable communication waa established in 1872 between Australia and England. The value of infantry was not fully recognized by mediaeval commanders until the fifteenth century. There are seven Jewish member* in the British House of Cotamons,all of whom were re-elected this year. An old Salina. Kas., woman has been arrested for stealing the oiled packing from the boxes of railroad cars. In England, during the financial year 1891-92, over fifty-seven millidb ordinary inland telegrams were transmitted. Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland or Ireland, by birth, marriage or creation, are free from arrest or imprisonment in civil process. , The man who sat three weeks in a recent religious convention says that every sneaker invariably used the phrase, 'it seems to me,” in the course of his remarks. “So, sir!” said the poet indignantly, “you refuse to give me the treatment due a bard.” “No,” replied the editor; “I do not. lam perfectly willing to treat you as a barrel poet.” “There is nothing like giving jfoUi enemy election tips,” said a young man. “Why?” “If he wins you make him your friend, and if he luGSei you have your revenge.” The governor ot the electric light works in Sedalia. Mo., broke the other night and the engine jumped from 500 to 2,1)00 volts. The globes burst in the street cars and there was excitement enough for awhile. . A giant sewing machine has lately been finished at Leeds,England. The machine, which is to be used for attaching cotton belting, is said to weigh 5} tons. The name of the first famous man dressmaker in Paris is said to have been Rhomberg. He was believed to have been the son of a poor Bavarian peasant who lived in Munich. A horse gets up fore parts first, u Cow hind parts first, because the strength for the second movement ot rising is posterior to the horse, bu* anterior to the cow. Savanna* News.