Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The mustache was first worn in Spain. Never ask a sick man or a shopping woman their opinion of love. Atchison Globe. Roman treaties, laws and public documents of importance were written on tables of brass. During the recent funeral of fireman John Peralto, of San Francisco, the fire bell rang the alarm 182, the same that called Peralta to the fire where he met his death, b ’ A great many of the small farmers on the Pacific slope are Chinamen, who carry their fruit and truck to the towns in boxes and baskets swung from a yoke on the shoulders. Georgia is about to send out a car to advertise its resources and products, ala Florida and Texas. The car will make a seven thousand mile tour of the North and East. Toronto, Can.,, has an office called the Department of Neglected Children, which is superintended by J. J. Kelso, whose duty it is to fipd suitable homes for unprotected children. i A writer in the London Lancet says that during the last few years the diagnosis of typhoid fever has been made more difficult by the resemblance of influenza symptoms to the earliest stages of typhoid. The estimated population of Mecca is about 60.000, while the ntimber pf pilgrims massed together there this year from all parts of the Moslem world is variously estimated at from 200,000 to 300,000.