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

WINCED MISSILES.

The Pepe has a full setcf poorly white teeth well preserved. Of the English bench of bishops, twelve are pledged abstainers. Machinery has not yet entered the manufacture of French clay pipes. A buried city, containing relics in profusion, has been unearthed in Honduras. -» A Londoner advertises that he is “Porous Plaster Manufacturer to Her Majesty the Queen.’* It is reported that a floating island 303 yards in diameter has boon found in Honey lake, Idaho. Buffalo Bill Is spending considerable money in making a collection of French paintings of value. It is a curious fact that there are 200,000 people in the United States who have artificial legs or hands. A well in the south, from which a strong breeze rushed for years, has suddenly tak en to spouting water. ———— Miss Lincoln, daughter of Minister to England Robert Lincoln, has become an acknowledged belle in London. British soldiers not in possession of swimming certificates are forbidden to enter boats for purposes of recreation. The finest diamonds visible at the Shah’s visit to the Paris exhibition are said to have been worn by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. Tennyson, Darwin, Gladstone, Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe and Lord Houghton were borVi in the year 1803. It is estimated that a major-gene ral in citizen’s clothes deteriorates fifty per cent, more especially if he smokes common cigars.

Out of 216 men passing along Main street in Cincinnati on a recent afternoon 210 had lost one or more of the hind buttons ofl their coats. There are still over lO.OOO.fldb square milet of unoccupied districts in various heathen lands, where missionaries thus far have never entered. A London journal states shirts of chain armor, which cost about, §503, are now worn by more than one distinguished person on tho continent. A San Francisco jeweler has just received S7OO for diamonds which he sold twentyfive years ago. The purchaser was honest but ho had bad luck. A brakeman on the Chicago <fc Alton locked three murderous tramps in a re-frigerator-car. They have an ice way of doing things on that line. The drivers of Boston ice wagons suffered more from the heat last summer than The draymen, although having a temper ature of 5P at their backs. George Johnson, of Utica, paid $1,203 foi a trotting horse, and he hadn’t owned hint a week when a rut frightened him so thal he jumped and broke a leg. The prize pumpkin at the county fab may consider itself handsome and popular, but it is not so strong a favorite us tiu prize onion on the next shelf. Bombay has a serpent thirty-six feet long in its zoological garden. Let this reptile be seen swimming at sea and the man who reported it would be called a liar. Some one told a South Carolina negro thfit if he would drink a gallon of strong vinegar right down that ho would never have headache again. He nevei will. Fish have been caught in the Gulf of California at a depth of 1,490 feet It.mUSS be fun to pull in a half a mile of fish line and find a throe-ounce perch on the hook. j The formation of an orange trust in Bos ton is announced. The number of spin sters in that city leads to the suspicion that an orange-blossom trust has long exist ed there. A Chicago aiderman whipped two citizem Sunday night for standing ou a street cor ner. It is hard to say what he would hav< done if they had been standing in the mid die of a block.

It is estimated that the amount of gold ■and silver coin on the bottom of the Allan tic Ocean is about $50,090,000, and it is fur ther estimated that most of it will staj right whero it is. The Japanese are learning how to eal meat In 1885 only 30.030 head of cattle were slaughtered in all Japan. In 1886 tht number increased to 116,000; in 1887, to 130,300; in 1888, to 200,000. > ■ ... f ‘ _ • Col. North, who began life in England as a humble labour, is now the nitrate king, and pays Chili 5t,725,090 per year export duties on nitrates produced by one of hit works in that country. A burglar who was captured by a woman at Elizabeth, N. J., says be could have broken loose from two men. She got him by the hair and hung on, and nothing he could do would shake her loose. The Queen Regent of Spain has caused advertisements to be published in all the leading newspapers of her dominion* offering the two prizes, $5,790 and $2,895, for the two best essays on the life of Christopher Columbus. A Memphis policeman, who was called on to shoot a dog, managed to hit a boy in the leg, a man in the foot and a horse in the head, and, while he was scattering two or three more bullets along the street, the dog trotted off.’ William O’Hare, of Williamsburg, N. Y., was denounced in public by Charles Masters as “a pious old fraud with the instincts of Satan,” and a jury assessed the damages of $3,000. Mr. Masters said he supposed this was a free country. A West Virginian trained a tiny stream ol water to fall drop by drop on a rock, and in five years it has worn a bole seven inches deep in solid stone. Ho could have . made the same bole in fifteen minutes with a chisel and hammer. . “Can the mosquito be exterminated I” is a question which some people seem to think difficult to answer. Yet any man who has experimented vainly with one mosquito from bed-time to the breakfast hour can give the proper reply' with his eyes shut. The Queen Regent of Spain and her family were weighed recently at San Sebastian. King Alfonso weighs 35 pounds; his mother, the Queen Regent, 118: his eldest sister, the Princess of the Austrias, 49; the Infanta Maria Theresa, 45. The whole family, therefore, weighs three pounds loss than ex Queen Isabella, who tips the scale at 12*9. Emperor William has Out recently honored himself with any high military rank. Though as Kaiser he is Iho “War Lord” of tho German army, he remained but a brigadier until a short time ago. wbea he rose to be a major-general. Since Q jcc* Victoria mado him a general, Moltke has urged him to como up to the first rank, and he 1s vow a commanding general. '