Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Every square mile of the sea contains 120,tH)b,0t | 0 fish of various kinds. The sturgeon fishing this season in Oregon waters is reported to be poor. Coal oil was first used in 1826. The product is now about 40,000,000 ■barrels a year. Of all conquering ‘nations, Spain has treated those ‘'subjected to her rule most harshly. At Rotterdam the poorer classes, who can not afford a fee, must marry on Wednesday before noon. The discharge of one of Herr tvrupp’s big guns at Essen can be beard farther than the loudest clap of thunder. It is claimed that the dress worn by the Romans under the empire was the most rational ever worn by civilized people. A Jersey bull in Harrison, Me., twisted his nose ring in a hazel bush so tightly that he couldn’t get away for three days. TFarm rents are ridiculously low in England. The Duke of Northumberland owns a farm ot:,130 acres in Surrey. There is a modern farmhouse, bam and two cottages on the land, and the rent is S3OO a year. By an Italian law every circus which does not perform every act promised in the printed program, or which misleads the public by means of pictures, is liable to a fine of SSOO [or each offense.-

In Korea every unmarried man is considered a boy though he should live to ’be a hundred. No matter what his age, he follows in position the youngest of the married men, Respite the fact, perhaps,.of having lived long enough to be their father. For a town not vet six months old, West Beach, on the shores of Baku Worth, Fla., shows a remarkable development. It became a community of nearly eight hundred people within six months of the time its business structure was built.

Mecca was visited last year by between 250,000 ond 300,000 pilgrims, i much larger number than usual, as the principal day of the pilgrimage happened to fall on Friday; 90,000 came by sea, of whom nearly 10,000 died of cholera, while of those who went by land, most of them from from British India, 15,000 perished. The mortality was 10 per cent, of all the pilgrims. Small families are hardly the rule among the English “upper ten." The average is seven or eight. The Queen is the mother of nine and the Princess of Wales of six children. Lord Abergavenny is the proud father of ten, the Duke of Argyll ol twelve, the beautiful Countess oi Dudley is the mother of seven, th« Earl of Ellesmere boasts of eleven, the Earl of Inchiquin of twelve, the Earl of Leicester fifteen, and the Duke of Westminster of eleven. In every city where the trolley car has been introduced there is somewhere an accumulation of old street cars for which there is ordinarily no market. The Boston Transcript tells Df a Cambridge man who had an idea and bought thirty-six such cars from the Cambridge railroad. Then he put one in a friend’s yard and incited the friend’s children to play in it. They did, and were charmed with it, of course, as was every child Df their acquaintance. Thereupon the thoughtful speculator promptly sold off the rest of his cars at a large advance to admiring parents.