Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — MISCELLANEOUS MOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS MOTES.

California has a State fruit union. Norway’s exports are fish, lumber and iron. There are 20,000,060 fruit trees in Calfornia. Chestnuts grow wild in all temperate climes. Japanese farm animals are shod with straw sandals. Colorado has 3,000,000 acres under artificial irrigation. The beet is mentioned by the Romans as a table dainty. Norwegians are the most temperjctepeople in thewortflr~ —^ One Alaskan volcano puffs at intervals like a locomotive. —- Poughkeepsie has an Indian name meaning a pleasant harbor. Every year West Virginia sends 300,000 pounds of ginseng to China. The sense of taste is most acute in the base, tip and edges of the tongue. The Boston public library has 556,000 volumes: that of Chicago 230,000. The officials of Korea wear upon their hats the figures of various birds and animals. The San Carlos Coal Company, controls 53,000 acres of land in one county in Texas. ' Five thousand words are daily sent over the cable connecting Australia and Europe. West Virginia has 16,000 square miles of coal fields, and produces annually 5,000,000 tons. A grafted tree at Monticello, Fla., annually bears a mixed crop of peaches, apples, pears, quinces and crabs. The consumption of horseflesh is increasing in Vienua. Last year the residents of that city ate 18,207 horses. ' A Kansas judge has sentenced a hov thief to six months in the publie school, the sheriff to see that he goes “stiddy.” A citizen of Wilcutt, Fla., has a curiosity in the shape of a cow horn five feet long and eighteen inches in circumference at the t^ase. A Jackson (Mich.) man combines the business of stage carpenter al the local theater with that of sexton of the Congregational church. The number of lady shooters is increasing rapidly. The demand for ladies’ light guns and smart shoot ing costumes has been greater than ever this year. New Franklin, Mo., is overrun with pigs, which the owners refuse to pen, because there is no law to compel them to do so. Thirty-five grunters were counted on the main 3treet of the town a few days ago. An Albany (6a.) dame, who tried to rid her premises of rats by soaking hominy in arsenic water, Bays that the entire tribe of rodents now inhabiting her place are of snowy whiteness, but still alive and frisky. Weather sharps down in Maine look for a long, cold winter. The goose bone is white, squirrels are digging deep holes, corn husks are extra thick, chipmunks have an ex- - tra coat of fur, and the katydids are singing bass. Names for babies are thus chosen in Egypt: The parents of the child select three candles, and to each candle the name of some dignified personage is given. The three are lighted, and the candle that burns the longest denotes the favored name.

During the past year 41,399 applications were made for patents and 24,204 were granted. Of these, 1,000 were for boots and shoes, 1,800 for carriages and wagons, 1,000 for harvesting implements, 1,000 for lamps and gas fixtures, 1,460 for railway cars, and 1,050 for puckingand storing vessels. There is a good deal of Iks’i printed about the stimulating effect of cold baths taken in a cold room on a cold winter morning. A farm laborer, weighing 190 pounds, and living on corn beef and cabbage, and possessed of just enough nervous energy to pull on his boots, might be benefitted by such treatment, but five city men out of ten would be injured. There is a great deal of affectation in the ice-water bath idea—a desire to be thought vigorous and strong—laudable enough, to be sure, but that isn’t the way to get there.—Philadelphia Press.