Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1893 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The distinction of reaching tho sor-i entieth anniversary of their wedding* has been experienced by Pierrej Coulombe and wife, of St. Norbet,* Quebec. Coulombe is ninety-soon years old, and his wife is three yean! his junior. - . :.. ~ } At the beginning of the century' the Bible was accessible to but onefifth of the population of the worfcL Now it may be read by nine-tenths of the people of the globe, so rapidly has its translation been carried on.* All the money in the world foots yp over fl&000,000.000. The aggregate wealth of the world is not known.. The United States and Europe foot up $250,000,(MX),000. So high has the wind. been in Ok* lahoma, lately, that the wind blowing from the South Canadian river has formed high banks imprisoning water and forming a chain of lakes where none existed before. Fish hatching in China is sometimes conduetra with the aid of a hen. The spawn is collected from the water’s edge and placed in an empty shell. The egg is then sealed with wax and placed under a setting hen. After some days the egg is carefully broken and the swarm emptied into water well warmed by tb> sun. There the little fish are nursed until they are strong enough to bb turned into a lake or stream. As a sparrow was drinking at s London fountain, a gold-fish sprang up and seized the bird by the leg; another fish clutched the other leg, and both dragged the sparrow under water and held it there until it was drowned. Porraddes in Ashantee, Africa* arc doomed to an uncommon fats. They are bound hand and foot to stakes driven in the ground, near the abodes of ants. In forty-eight hours the ants eat them olive, leaving noth* ing but the bones. One drink too much caused a Wilkesarre man to see along snake in his garden. He valiantly attacked it with an ax, and in a few minutes settled the monster. Next morning he discovered that he had cut up bia garden hose. An old and very thin horse was lately put up at auction, in Hartford, and sold to a colored clergyman for fifty cents. The auctioneer gravely informed the purchaser that the bones were kept in view purposely, to show that none of them had been extracted. In the spire of a church in Brighton, Mass., there were recently found three cats of a species hitherto unknown. Their fur is long and shaggy* their teeth are like tusks, and oo the nose of each is a. tuft of hair. They had evidently been in the spire for-many years. The mourners at Persian funeral* are supplied with little wads of cotton, which are used to wipr away their tears. The cotton is afterward squeezed and the tears are bottled and preserved. They are si;oposed to possess restorative qualities in. case of fainting. An electric oven, just invented* roasts beef and other joints, and bakes pies and puddings, while tbeoutside of the oven beats the content* of pans, kettles, etc. There are noashes, no smoke, no fuei, and in an instant the heat may be turned onor extinguished. Rattlesnake oil is believed to bo a remedy for rheumatism. In Connecticut there are several persons who make a living as rattlesnake hunters. Armed with a iong pole, which has a keen knife at the cod, they bring it down on the reptile, and dexterously decapitate it. Charles Dana Gibson, the illustra tor, has sailed for Europe to be gone until next July. He will remain a month in London as the guest of Eld win Abbey, then going on to Paris, where he inteuds to establish a studio for the winter. William D. Little, who was the first life insurance agent in Mu'ne. beginning that business in Portland a half century ago. when many preachers considered it a sacrilege to insure a man’s life, died last week at the age of nitfety-sir. He and Neal Dow founded the first temperance union in Maine. There is an active demand for farming land in. Alabama. The general manager of the lands of the Alabama Great Southern railroad says he receives applications every dajr from tbe North and West from’ those desiring farming lands, and a number of sales have already been made to parties who will ipove in. That somewhat dry daily, the Congressional Record, has bee:> much more in demand than usual! during the present extra session o fCongress, because of the interest: felt in the silver question. This was especially true so iong as in either House the discussion was not kept up merely to kill time. The Record has come within the past few week into the hands of some who perhaps scarcely realized that such $ daily publication-is issued by tbe Federal Government, George IV. from the time be was Sr young man, constantly tarried a pocketbook, into which he thru3t bdnk notes, letters, trinkets and keepsakes. As Soon as the pocketbook beeauje full he used to put it away and substitute for it a new one. This, when filled, was larid aside and replaced in a like manner. When the King died it devolved, on the Duke of Wellington to examine tho monarch’s personal effects, and ha discovered an entire chest of drawers filled with fat pooketbooks, which contained not less than $50,000.