Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

The finest lemon orchards in the world are those in Sicily, where an acre ol’ lempns is Worth £3OO. Queen -.Victoria's traveling expenses in connection with her trip to the Iti viera amounted to about s£’.">,ooo. '— The juice of a pineapple cuts the membrane from the throat of a diphtheria patient When nothing else will. In tlie last nine months 17,000,000 bushels of com were shipped from New York, while 15,000,000 bushels were exported through New Orleans. The British isles comprise,no fewer than 100 separate islands and islets. without counting more jutting rocksor isolated pinnacles. It lias been discovered by two French scientists that most precious stones, such as. the ruby, the sapphire, and the emerald, can readily be told from tlieir imitations by means of the Roentgen rays. » Tomatoes are best eaten raw with salt. They should be ripe, but not over-much so, and they are best eaten before breakfast. The tomato should be a favorite fruit with those who suffer from constipation. X statue of President Kruger will soon lie erected in Pretoria. It will be forty leet high, and will represent the Boer statesman in the quaint garb, tall hat included, which he affects ou Sundays and speeia 1 occasions. Eggs are being peddled around Tucson, Am., at 20 cents per dozen. For a short time last summer they reached the same figure. That is the lowest price ever known in Tucson. In days gone by they were considered cheap at 75 cents and "per dozen. Thomas Fitzmorris. a farmer living at White River'Junction, Vt„ was fined $54 for giving away two drinks of hard cider to visitors at bis home, and the sheriff conti scat ml 200 gallons of cider found in the cellar. This was done under the prohibitory law of the State.' M. Jacobs, a prominent .merchant of Portsmouth, Ohio, lias almost completed a dwelling house built according to bis own designs. The amateur architect has just discovered that in his new $7,500 residence lie failed to make any provision for a fireplace, fine or.chimney.

On land'surfaces at sea level tlie wind attains its greatest velocity during the heated portion of the day—from 10 a. in., to 2 p. m.—and then diminishes in velocity until the minimum is reached about midnight. This condition does not prevail, however, at an elevation of four thou turn l feet and as has been conclusively shown by direct observations of the velocity of the wind on mountain peaks, and ahso-of cloud motions In the five air. The :maximum velocity of the wind at Dike’s I’eak, Colorado, elevation 14,154 feet, oecurs from, 2 to A a. tn. and the minimum from 11 a. tu. to 1 p. m.