Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — All Sorts. [ARTICLE]

All Sorts.

What is asserted to be the oldest lifeboat in existence is preserved at South Shields, England, ss a valued relic. It was built in 1830, and during more than fifty years of active service was instrumental in saving 1,<>28 persons. There is a man living near HelmoHft, in Massachusetts, who for B'fty years has been engaged in matching and selling frogs, with which he supplies hotels aud restaurants, and also ships them to scientific men in Europe. Some trees live a very long time. It is known that trees have attained the following ages: Elm 535, cypress 350, ivy 450, larch 570, chestnut 600. jrange 630, pajm 650, olive 700, oriitital plane 720, cedar 800, lime 1,100, 3ak 1,506, yew 2,800. A Japanese novelist has produced i story called “The Romance of a Dog,’’ which is to appear in 108 volumes, issued at short intervals at a popular price. The Japanese write novels as they produce plays, in a number of installments.

The proprietor of a hotel at Abilene, Kas., keeps a pile of wood on hand to keep tramps from begging a meal from him. When one of the gentry appears he points to the wood'pile and .informs him that it takes one hour’s work ou the pile to secure the meal.

Cut glass washed in warm soaptuds, rinsed in hot, but not boiling, water, and then stood in a pan of •if dry sawdust till dry, then brushed with a soft brush and rubbed with a piece of soft chamois will have its brilliant CeiTuty dazzlingly brought put. Dr. Megnin, of the Paris Acdacny of Science, is authority for the statement that kissin-g—of pet 'dogs is one rs the most common agencies In the spread oJ diseases, especially consumption.