Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1893 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Ireland is larger than Scotland by 1,200 square miles. There are ten distinct parliaments in the British Empire. Princess College may institute a medical school this year. A locomotive requires fuel and labor to the value of $3,000 iu the course of a year. A pear that weighs over thirty ounces is on exhibition at a drug store in Atlanta, Ga. A public library and literary resort exclusively for the blind has been opened in Chicago. Last year 580 persons visited Carlyle’s birthplace, Ecclefechan. Two of the number were Chinese. At the present rate of increase there will be 190,000,000 people in the United States in fifty years. German soldiers now carry shelter tents that, in case of necessity, can be used as boats in crossing deep streams. The Union Pacific railroad has fifteen long and a great number of short tunnels, the aggregate length being 0,600 feet. A sign in front of a store at Georgetown, Md., bears this inscription: “Born with a brain within a brain i can kure enny kind of misery in a short time with only the best erbs to be used.” Recently two physicians advertised in New York for a man who would submit to a surgical operation which might possibly be fatal, in consideration of $5,000. Thev received 142 replies, the greater number of which were bona fide. How the bicycle interest has spread among women is evidenced by a recent announcement in the advertisement of a Brooklyn dry-goods firm, that a rack is provided for bicycles, and “wheels may be checked while ladies make their piuvhases." Chamois skin is one of too many things seldom met with save by proxy. Nearly all of the chamois skin in tho market is male from sheep skin or goat skin from England and France. A dealer in these substitutes declares that a single importing house could us,, in one year all the true chamois skin that Switzerland produces in ten years. The genuine article fetches three times the price of the substitutes.