Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Millot is prehistoric in South Europe, Egypt and Asia. Except wandering priests, there are few beggars in Japan, and most 3f these are fat and rosy. If a man strikes another with a weapon in Madagascar there is but one law, and that law is death. x There were very few paved streets in any part of England before the year 1853,. when the streets of Lonion were lirst laid down. Every one who smokes or chews iclps to support the government. In 1892 the* government revenue.' from tobacco were $31,000,077. The Big Sandy, in Kentucky, tool its English name from its sandbars The Indians called it the Chatterol, meaning “the sandy river." In a tree cut down on the Faul ’oner place, in Spottsylvania, Ya., three pistol balls and a carbine ball were found imbedded in the heart. The people of Great Britain consume less tobacco per head than those of any other country—only twenty-three ounces to the inhabitant. One inch of rain falling on a square mile of land represents 22,000 horse power. The power of a longgeneral rain over a wide area would be almost incaculable. The taste is often the last faculty to be impaired by old age, because it is most needed for the protection of the individual against the use ol unwholesome food. In the early days of the last century there was a fashion prevalent in both England and on the continent of writing poems in the shape of various objects. Hearts, wings, altars, true lovers’ knots, gloves, spectacles, shears and other articles were thus utilized. Tokio knows no lawn mowers. When the lawn grass gets long it is invaded by a cheerful company of old ladies with pairs of shears, who clip and clip all dav long, drink tea or smoke under a t’ree and final* i Jy charge for the job no more than a | lawn mower would in Brooklyn.