Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — INTERESTING ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ITEMS

Nebraska has aftnost no fences at aU. There are 20,000 French in lx>wer Egypt. t One dollar is the price of a shave in Leadville, Col. There are sevei gold mines in full blast in Lincoln county, Ga. A new park for the east lower part <Jf New York city is proposed The Catholics far outnumber anv one other denomination in Kansas. Canada will soon establish four teen agricultural schools for Indians. The failurreof farmers are becoming alarmingly frequent in England. There are 3,450 Roman Catholic Bishops, priests and chaplains in Ireland. Gold of unusual purity has been discovered in the village of Glen Riddle, fifteen miles from Philadelphia. Princess Louise caught a twentyfive pound salmon, and she had it packed in ice to b$ sent to the Queen. There were two chickens hatched from the same egg at Cumberland, Kentucky, a few weeks ago. Both are living. Coooanut Bqueai.hr, the father of the first monkey born at the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens, is dying at the age of fifty. The mania for feather trimmings has produced great suffering in Coventry, England, by the stoppage of the ribbon factories.

Thirty persons were poisoned at Sardinia, this State, a few nighta ago by eating ice cream at a festival held in that place. A Pourtuguese explorer has discovered a new race of people in the center of Africa, whose skin is white and who have no hair. Tires must, indeed, be pretty hard in London, at least so says one of the fashionable tailors there, for he maintains that “when eminent bankers in Lombard street come to me to have their trousers reseated, there must be something very wrong with the money market.” Mr. Spubobon- has lately received from an unknown source the sum of (49,000 toward the ooet of malntain-

ing the charitable institutions under his control, the amount to b# equally divided between the Pastors* College and the Stockwell Boys' Orphanage. Mil Robort T. Crawshay, the gentleman known in Great Britain as the “Iron King of Wales,# has just died. He was very wealthy. When the last great strike took pface among his workmen he determined to -dose his iron works, and they have never been reopened. Mr. Gladstone is nefer at a loss for>n opinion on any given topic. His latest outburst, provoked by some begging application, is upon tea and coffee. He writes upon one of his famous postal cards: “I am opposed to coflee palaces, as I believe they fare more deteriorating than beer shops. The stimulating properties of tea or coffee are greater and more injurious than thoee of malt liquors. See August a Stewart, of the oounty of Tyrone, Ireland, has brought a curious action. His predecessor in the baronetcy, who died at the age of ninety-four, left £SOO to Miss Dunnett, daughter of his steward, a woman of fifty, because he wished to make a compensation to her for'reports prejudicial to her character, and directed a mfm of £4,000 to be held in her and his point names. The heir resists the payment of this amount. A singular premonition was that of Nathaniel Root, of Coventry, Conn., an old man of ninety-four, who said, on Saturday last: “I am expecting to die to-day.” He attended to his work as usual in the morning and after eating dinner rose ffom the table, showing no signs of illness, remarking, ‘l’ll go and lie down and die now!” NJo one supposed he was serious, but m going to his room, half an hou ater, he was found to be stone dead.

A strange occurrence is reported from Wetzikon, Canton Zurich, iu Switzerland. On June 7 the Commune was invaded by an immense swarm of butterflies, two-thirds of a mile wide, and so long that the procession took two hours to pass. They were principally of the kind known in Switzerland as Distelfalter L which feed on nettles and thistles. They flew from ten to thirty feet above the ground, and went off in a northwesterly direction It is said that the lateG. W. M. Reynolds had made more money by his sixty or seventy cheaply sensational novels than many of the most distinguished authors in Great Britain. His earnings from his stories have been estimated as high as $300,000, which may be an exaggeration, although that would not be much more than $20,000 a novel, and some of his novels are reported to have brought him in SIO,OOO and $12,000 apiece. Although the New York police could make nothing of the Hull murder case, they do occasionally make an important arrest. Such an one they made a few days ago when they took in a man whom they saw butting his head into an iron letter-box on Broadway. He would rattle the lid and pull at it and then run to another box and butt that. When arrested he insisted that he was a three-cent-stamp, posted for Washington. He could not be reasoned out of the belief, and was taken to t,ke station house and committed. i

In Mandelay there is an English school founded and conducted under the direction of the Rev. J. E. Marks. The late King asked Mr. Marks, when he first started the school, which was the best age for a boy to learn English. He replied about twelve years, whereupon his Majesty sent him fifteen of his sons about twelve years of age, one being the present King Thee Baw. The Royal father was once asked how many children he had altogether. He gazed vacantly on the interrogator, and then replied, “What a foolish question. How can I be expected to know?” To all who are afflicted with the habit of profanity, and who are desirous of curing themselves of it, the Louisville Courier- Journsl suggests that, as a beginning, they resolve, and rigidly adhere to the resolution, that whenever they feel a disposition to swear they will take no other name in vain except that of the Aztez god of war, Huitzllopochtli. That will give their anger a chance to cool and to disappear before they get to the other end of the word, and they will not thus be guilty of the sin of a complete oath. And if Huitzllopochtli won’t break them, then their cases are hopeless.