Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

Items of Interest.

England's polict; army numbers 40,000 men. Sunflower stalks are now converted into paper. Tlie Cberokees of North Carolina number 2,855. Blotting paper is made of cotton rags boiled In soda. The Russian imperial crown is valued at $0,000,000. The notes of the Bank of England -cost one-halfpenny each; -t:—,, The eggs of a crocodile are scarcely larger than those of a goose. The Himalaya Mountains have been seen twenty-two miles away. Railway travel In Xorwny Is eheaper than In any other country of Europe. In Brazil there are said to be 300 languages aud dialects spoken hy the Indians. In the Bermudas accounts are settled but once a year, June 30 being the day fixed for payments. The commander in-chlef of the Sultan of Morocco’s army is a Scotchman, by name Kaid McLain. In marching soldiers take seventyfive steps per minute," quick marching 108 and in charging 150. A healthy man respires 1(5 to 20 times a minute, or over 20,000 a day; a child 25 or 35 times a minute. It Is said that a clock Ims been Invented which requires to be wound only once every hundred years. The number of fleeces taken from our sheep In 1880 was 32,121,808, which made 105,440,230 pounds of wool. The largest ocean creature now known to exist is the rorqual, which often reaches a length of fourteen feet William Strong is the only retired Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States now living. He is SO years old. * • It is said that at Steveus Point, Wls., a local census disclosed a lmsbnnd of 37 and wife of 140 who had a grandchild 5 years old. ' There are 107,140,420 acres of timber lands In the Southern States, qhd the average yield of these forests is 3,000 feet per acre. J. C. Kissinger, a successful funner and banker of Butler Couuty, Pa., Is the father of thirty-four children, nineteen by bis first wife aud fifteen by a second. The oldest chestnut tree may be that at Torwortb, which is 50 feet In circumPCTPnee,: Aslong ago as 1135 it was a landmark. An electric system of intercommunication for trains is being tried on the London Southwestern Railway, doing away with the overhead cord for Communicating from nuy part of the train to the locomotive. The New York Lenox avenue conduit road (underground trolley) has emerged saccessTuHy from thirtests-tDwrhleh the severe storms of last winter subjected It. The equipment of this line Is to be increased.