Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — OUT OF THE ORDINARY [ARTICLE]

OUT OF THE ORDINARY

There are many stone bridges in China dating from 1,000 B. C. Denver people claim that during the year the clear sun shone on their city 320 days out of the 365. A Georgia man is the owner of about four thousand “Yankee’’ brasg buttons which he secured during the war. A woman at Almont, Mich., wears a pair of earrings *which has been in the possession of her family 160 years. Notwithstanding modern improvements, it costs more per thousand feet to manufacture lumber than it did forty years ago. Eggs are used largely in the arts. It is said that three factories use 3,000,000 i:l the manufacture of albumen paper for photographers. Alexander the Great is the only celebrated man in histary of whom it may be truthfully said: He was born in Europe, dic'd in Asia and is buried in Africa. Human blood derives its red color from the myriads of red corpuscles it contains, yet these "corpuscles are red only when collected in large numbers-. When only a few are present they are of a very light straw color.

Buffalo is the only city in the United States that has given the country two Presidents —Fillmore and Cleveland. Both these Presidents appointed their former law partners to the office of PostmasterGeneral. An Ohioan recalls that bibituminous coal was literally free fifty or sixty years ago in the eastern part of Ohio to such persons as chose to dig it where it cropped out. This was in days when eggs were three and ten cents a dozen in Ohio. Numerous metal ties have been invented and many railroads have tried them, but all have proved unsatisfactory. The principal objection to them are their cost and non-elastic-ity. A track laid on metal ties wears out rolling stock much faster than one laid on timber.