Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The French Army prefers Irisl torses for its I'.aval:*3 A base-ball player in lndepend enee, Kansas, can throw a ball 29( feet. Hie room in which the great Na poleon died is now occupied as * stable. TJie National capitol and th( grounds represent a cash outlay o: almost $20,000,000. The otter excels every animal ir swimming. Its speed is superior to that of many fishes. Newfoundland js without reptiles. No snake, frog, toad, or lizard has ever been seen there.

There are just forty inhabitants in the little French hamlet of Anmone. and twenty-four of them are ovei eighty years of age. The bite of a rat caused fata' blood-peisoning to the two-year-old child of August Sehlechter. in Louisville, Ky, There are over three hundred mountain peaks within the limits ol the United States that exceed ten thousand feet in hight. The smallest tree in the world is the Greenland birch. Its height is less than three inches, yet it covers a radius of two or three feet. An industrious little colored boy in Atlanta, Ga., aged seven years, was lately induced to 6et fire to a house for a reward of five cents.

A device for stopping a trolley car, which is running at full speed, within the space of three feet, has been invented by a man in Rochester. A New York man who is tired of uncomfortable summer resorts, is putting in ten days’ vacation riding around on New York and suburban street railway lines. It is the boast of Col. James Clay, as Bourbon county, Kentucky, that he owns a larger tract of blue-grass land than any other man in the world. He is assessed in his own name for 4,295 acres. The whale moves through the water with a valocity which, if continued at the same rate, would enible him to encircle the whole earth in less than fourteen days. All the school-teachers in Canton, Mass., twenty-six in number, have been invited by Augustus Hemenway, of that town, to visit the World's Fair, at his expense. An application of bruised bean leaves gives almost instant relief from the effects of ivy poison A Jecoction of dried bean leaves is also a remedy for the same trouble. Silken fabrics should never be kept folded in white paper. The chloride of lime which is used to bleach the paper causes a chemical change in the silk, and injures the color. The'American mosquito has crossed the Atlantic, is entertaining itself to its heart’s content on the blue blood of England, and is getting in its fine work most effectively. A carpet which had been used for seven years on the floor of the coin-' iug-room in the San Francisco Mint was recently burnt to ashes, and the residue yielded $5,500 worth of gold. A “combination verdict,” which included a variety of ills, was rendered by a jury in Memphis. They gravely decided that the deceased “came to his death by a blow or fall which produced inflammation of the brain, causing erysipelas, which was was aggravated by alcoholism and and morphine poison."’ Quanah Parker, the old chief of the Comanches, brought his newest squaw into Vernon, Tex., the other day to have her photograph taken. This redoubtable redskin has become highly civilized, though in a Mormon way, since he buried the tomahawk. He has seven wives, lives in a fine house, drives a horse and carriage, and eats the best food the market provides. He is a tall and bony but not unhandsome man.

A stupid office-boy in Bangor was directed to take to the stable a livery team which his employer had just used. He brought the team to tho wrong stable, where it remained for a week. The owner of the stable has sent in a bill ' for the board of * the horses and the owner of the horse? wants pay, for the use of the team for a week. An unmarried woman possessed of considerable Wealth, who died last week in a town in Pennsylvania,was buried in a grave that was dug nineteen years ago. Her father was buried in it originally, and after two years his body was exhumed and placed in a vault. It was a principle of the family never to spend inonev uselessly, and the daughter, realizing that she Would need a grave sometime, decided that filling up the grave would be a waste of money, apd ordered that it be kept open for her. When the not-too-long-delayed day camo (she was then eighty-one years of age), the grave was found to be a half dozen inches too short. It was lengthened and the interment was made. In the Horticultural Building at Chicago there is a solid silver filigree model of that structure which cost 135,000, or about one-seventh of the cost of the larger building itself. It weighs 110 pounds, is eleven feet long, three feet, nine inches in bight. To build it required the services of twelve men, working eighteen hours a day, thirteen months. The work was done by the Mexicans, who are the most adept in the filigree art." The progeny of a pair of rabbits, in ten years, will number 70.000,000.