Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

A house in Chelsea from the roof of which Turner painted his picture of the Thames is to be torn down. Claims amounting to $44,000,000 Lave recently been filed against the government under the Indian depredation act. The commission appointed to study leprosy in India has reported that the digease, instead ,of spreading, is on t the decrease. William Cameron and William Baxter, of Pattersonville, Ohio, recently had a hard fight with some eagles. They killed the birds of course, but were badly cut iu the fight. A professor’s chair for the history of Alsace has been founded at the Sarbonne in Paris and given to Dr. Rudolf Reuss, of Strassburg, a son of the Protestant theologian and Bible critic. The Hudson River bridge will have a span of .'5,110 feet, the longest in the worm! . The towers from which the cables will be hung will be 580 feet high, or higher than the Washington monument. The pfpfix ta *fom(\tim t! as a title of respect to gentlewomen came into use in England during the reign of OhLrles 11., and was doubtless of French origin. As far as known the first use of the title appeared in the English parish registers in 1690. The steam yacht Saxon has just reached Liverpool, and her arrival marks the close of another chapter in the long and interesting history of Arctic exploration. The Saxon, which is a yacht of forty-eight tons register, left "Liverpool in May last, bound for Nova Zembla.

In a Newcastle shipyard lately a part of the men went on a strike. They and their employers agreed to submit the disputed matters to the arbitration of a working blacksmith in the yard. He decided in favor of the employers and the men went back to at once to work.o

At Mine. Tussaud’s, in London, is now to be seen the Gladstone state carriage, presented to Mr. Gladstone by his father more than fifty years ago. The only other carriages in the exhibition are those of Napoleon I. and Napoleon 111. Mr. Gladstone sold the carriage in order to obtain the money for a charitable scheme. The New York canals have been having one of the worst seasons ever known. Grain traffic has been light, but the railroads have managed to grab most of this reduced tonnage and the canal boats are rotting in idleness. Grain is being carried by the roads at rates which yield no profit and the elevators at Buffalo are said to be discriminating unlawfully against the canals.

Out of 22G.000 forms in Denmark only 1,900 are over 250 acres in extent and most of them are worked by their owners. By their great technical knowledge of their business and the gradual change from growing grain to breeding cattle and dairy farming the Danish farmers have suffered less from transatlantic competition than those of any other European country. It is estimated the American travelers this season have spent $23,000,000 in London nlone. The London Telegraph places the number "of such tourists who have visited the city this sucSmCr at 130,000. Letting that represent the whole number of Americans who have crossed over to Europe this summer, and estimating their average individual expenditures at SI,OOO, which some authorities think is too high aud others think too low, here would be an aggregate expenditure of American money in Europe this summer of $130,000,000.