Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Pennsylvania has 200,000 farms. Paper is made from tobacco stalks. Our coal mines employ 341,743 men. Few who ply the quill for a living succeed in feathering their nests. — Kate Field’s Washington. Label a man as dangerous and most girls of sixteen see a halo around his head. —Atchison Globe. Statistics show that Russia produces and consumes a smaller quantity of beer than any other nation. The Indian troops at Ft. Washakie, returned from a hunt recently with twenty elks. At Great Falls, Mont, the mercury has been known to drop twen-ty-five degrees in five minutes. Two hundred and eighteen thousand tons of phosphate have been mined in South Carolina during the present year. The record for premierships is now held by M. Tricoupis, who has become for the fifth time prime minister of Greece. The ordinary honey-bee weighs cne-five-thousandth part of a pound when not loaded. When loaded, 1,800 bees make a pound. Down in the Pistol river country an energetic individual squatted on Miss Annie Lawrence’s ranch. He did not stay long, however, for the yountr lady claimant and her friends secured a team and a sled, and, placing the jumper’s effects thereon, carted them off the place, while he stood helpless to stop the proceeding.—Portland Oregonian.

Since 1872 it has been known that gold existed in solution in s a wat er. Recently it has been discovered by T. A. Ricard that there is less than one grain of gold to a ton of sea water. On a fair computation of the amount of ocean water on the globe it is shown that no less than 10,250.000,000 tons of gold are held in solution by the salt water of this earth. At College Mound, Mo.,two young men, brothers, were taken ill with typhoid fever about three weeks ago. The disease ran its course for ten days, when their father who attended them —they were in different rooms —on going into the room of one son, found to his horror that the boy had just expired. He remained in the room for a short time, thoroughly overcome. When be entered the room of his other boy he found that in the brief interval he also had, expired. Sudden Changes of Weather cause Throat Diseases. There Is no more effectual remedy for Coughs. Colds, etc., than Bnowns Boom chiai.'Troches. Sold only In boxes. Price *8 cents. The only suspicion of crookedness In heaven came about when an astronomer discovered that some of the stars had been fixed.