Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Experiments prove that snakes will not cross hair ropes. “Sunday sacred turkey shoots” are popular in St. Charles, Mo. The mean depth of the Atlantic is about IG,OOO feet. Formation of nitric and other acids in the air by electric light was proven in 1879.

There are springs of fresh water in the Persian gulf that fqrnish supplies to vessels. A Wyoming cowboy was attacked 'by a large lynx the other day while riding across the bad lands near the Montana line. The animal jumped on his horse’s back, clawing and biting both man and horse in a terrible manner. A companion, who was riding at his side, managed to kill the beast after firing three shots into its bodv.

Th,e widest canal in the world is said to be the Chenab irrigation canal in the northwest province of India, It is 110 feet broad, and will bd 200 feet broad when finished. The main canal will be 450 miles long; the principal branches will have an average length of 2,000 miles, and the village branches of 4,000 miles; 250,000 acres are already irrigated.

I In Manchester, England, the Town .Council is about to put $1,250,000 jinto clearing the slums. An overcrowded and unhealthy space of five acres in the center of the city will be taken, the buildings torn down, and pew model workmen’s dwellings ■erected in their stead, with large areas for playing grounds, and trees and flowers planted in the open ’spaces.