Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — WINGED MISSILES. [ARTICLE]

WINGED MISSILES.

Emile Zcla does most of his work after midnight -He might better be sleeping. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is very much hurt because he has not had the grip. Engagement rings are in danger. The midlock bracelets are trying to supplant ;hem. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain bv<(»ts that ffie is-more iu debt than any woman-in Europe. John Thompson, of Williamsport, suffered from aa attack of hiccoughs which lasted for a week. Prince Bismarck has a presentiment that he will reach the age of the late Emperor William. The Welsh for bear is cwrw. Patti does ict speak Welsh, but they say sha can say ■‘ewrw ” very sweetly. If Benjamin F. Batler’3 good taste were is great as the bitterness of his tongue he would be a more popular man. There are 300,00 J telephones in this country. Rents are high and dividends ire large. Success is success. They tell of a man out in California who has green whiskersln . his case,..and his. mly,-dying would be-permissible. -There are said to be more than 403 iron furnace; in the South west. A q uarler of a century ago there were none. “vVe grow!” Mary Anderson is at Nice, France. She spends part of the day in resting and the remainder in denying that she is engaged —Vv hile digging in his ear with a -piaCharles Mowers, of Shippensburg, Pa., did trimseif an injury which resulted in lockjaw. In money matters Lotta is always suc>essful. She has the money making talent. Her hotel in Boston is the best paying one there. Leopold Arends invented the system'of MtortliaiKC'lritown TtJjrTrts- Trains— Amnpnw uent has just been erected to his memory in Berlin.

if Henry Chadwick," the father-of- base ball should die fia would, probably get a monument before the one to grant is finished in New York. English syndicates comeTiere’afi3"Anferican syndicates go abroad. Allot' the Jamaica railways have been taken by an American syndicate. New York is going to have a new hotel ten stories high. People who like to sleep JwAyafiAve~tlle~exhalations of the oai'thr can be aeecrrnm od a ted. Senator Stanford has his millions, but he tS one ot' the.plainest and most unassuming if men. ' However, he kujws whortr-andi how to make money talk. The Popo lias changed his habits. He now devotes the time between half-past live and ten at night for the ardent perusal if newspapers of all nations. There are fifty manufactories of imitation butter in Germany. A factory in mannheim produces daily (S,OJJ pounds from a preparation of cocuanuts,, It is said that the Prince of Wales likes the Duke of Fife. This is satisfactory. The prince tins been obliged to give up his teats, and so finds relief in Fife. , Antrim, N. 11., with a population of about 1,300 boasts of four nouogenariaus and* twenty-five octogenarians. Twentyone of Jhese twenty-nine old people are women.

There would seem to tn no excuse for one being without a Bible on tile ground of scarcity of tho artiolo. The Bibio House of New York has issued since last April i'raJUQ.Hiblai,, Richard Brown, a well known iron man of Youngstown, 0., has discovered twe forged no'es bearing his signature, one for <5,0J0 and one for Si >,()>.'. Ho has no idea of the forger’s identity. Tennyson recently wrote in a letter to s New York friend: “I think it wisest in a man to do his work in the world as quietly and as well as he can, without much heeding the praise or dispraise. The moral philosophy.of the Philadelphia Inquirer oilers this definition: “The moral roward is a man who cannot do anything original without asking the world’s pardon toy. running off the .track.” . The Atchison Daily Champion says that cob pipes made into breastpins are becoming fashionable among Atchison’s young a omen. The next fashion will probably be a plug of oxidized tobacco lor shoe buckles. There is a great boom in phosphate lUfids in southern Florida, and many poor men have become rich by the sale of their farms to speculators. One man is reported to have refused $.’,099,'. 0J for a tract ol land held by him. They had a' binquet at Spokane Falls the other night. It was not a “dry banquet,” The reporter who attended dosed his account of the affair by saying, "It is not distinctly remembered who made the last speech.” It is claimed that phosphate is found in juiy three places throughout the United States—South Carolina, New Mexico und F.orida., In New Mexico it is about exhausted; while in Florida it is m >re extensive than in South Carolina and assays 25 per cent more. Maz O’Rell admires the Irish. Being askdd if ho had written a book on tho Irish lie replied: ‘I like to write about the faults of the people. The people of Ireland have no faults. Did I try to find theml Yes, I spent a week or more in the land that has sent so many sons here.”

W. A Merryday, of Polatka, Fla., ha* tn owl that is as tamo as his store cat All flay long the “Irishman’s parrot” rests on the rafters overhead in tho grain-room. The cat and owl have formed a strong attachment in tho last four months for each other, and it is not an unusual sight for the eat to go off and return with a rut for his owlship. In return for tho kindness the owl will take its paw and scratch the cat’s fleas, when pusiy will purr and rub up against the owl’s feathers, both looking perfectly happy all tho while.