Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

Tragedy was first represented on a wagon by Thespis, at Athens, B. C., 539. The Hirsch Jewish colonies in the Argentine are reported in a lamentable condition. A portion of a skeleton of a man sixty feet high has been unearthed near Glendive.JAlontan . A young girl named Anita has induced the Yaqui Indians, of Chihuahua, to revolt against Diaz. Dr. Talmage’s Brooklyn T» b sr* nacle has been seized for debt, aud a sheriff’s officer was in possession during service on a recent,Sunday. Julia Hall, mysteriously missing from her home at Norwalk. Ct., returned after two days. Investigation convinced her parents that she had been bidden all the time iu an bid carriage in tbe bam.

• A young boy at Coblentz, Germany. was lately sentenced to twelve years’{imprisonment at hard labor. He is reported to have caused sixteen incendiary fires, which destroyed property valued at $50,000. A twenty-four-foot redwood tree, in seventy-five sections, weighing 175 tous, from California, lias been set upon the World's Fair Grounds, at at Chicago. There will be two rooms inside the tree, 16 and 12 feel in diameter respectively, i There-has been a remarkable de* crease in the prison population of 'England and Wales since 1877 which is worth noticing. In the half year ended 1878 the prisoners amounted to 20,833; in 1888 the figures for the whole year had gone down to 14,536 and in 1892 the number was 12,663,. In'thje jewel house of the tower of London, the place where the British crown and other royal insignia are kept, there is a book bound throughout in gold, even.to the wires of the {hinges., Its clasp is*two rubies set at opposite ends of four golden links. On one side there is a cross of diamonds ;on the other the English coat of arms set in diamonds, pearls and rubies.