Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1879 — INTERESTING ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ITEMS

Taa Cornish mines have been worked for over 1,000 years. / Tub past collegiate year has been very prolific of college rebellions. An Ohio editor has been fined one cent for calling a man a “scalawag.” A Norwich (Vt.) man ha* made a set of wooden teeth, which he wears, The largest cornfield In the State of Rhode Island contains twenty acres. In Richmond, Va., over two-thirds of the populatfou use kerosene lamps. Th* sugar crop of Cuba exceeds that of last year by more than 106,000 tons. For the daily snpply of the British metropolis aoout 6,500 live beasts are sent to the London market. A ran In Yarmouth, Mass., exhibits well-preserved shingles, which have been on nik house 102 years. A church at Cynthiana, Ky M gave “a grand picnic and horse-race” last week for the benefll'of Its fundß. The population of the Island of Ceylon Is about 260,000, of whom 15,000 belong to the Church of England. At the marriage lately of Lord Durham’s second son, eight of the eleven bridesmaids were tbe bride’s sisters.

The New York physicians have found a case where a man’s heart has shifted from the left to the right .side. A bird’s nest with two eggs was found at Providence, recently, in a bunch of bananas that had just arrived from the tropics. A singular case of hydrophobia is mentioned by the New Haven Journal as occuring twenty years after the bite of a rabid dog. In Jefferson county, Tenn., two brothers by the name of Caldwell got up to look for burglars, and in the dark one shot and killed the other. The recent State census Shows that the population of Nebraska is about 380,400, or nearly 100 times greater than It was twenty-five years ago. Bracelets with lead pencils attached are among the latest fancies. These pencils are ran through a ring attached to the bracelet when not In use. The London Tablet declares that there is hardly an Englisfo noble family thet has not given one or more of its members as converts to the Catholic Church. . , • • » ■ North Perky, Me., has an infant: giantess in perfect health, which, though but a year old, is three feet high, and weighs as much os a healthy 13-year-old boy. On the night of May 22, a Moscow policeman named Yarighin arrested a youug lady of good fondly in the act of posting Nihilist proclamations. As a reward he was given one hundred roubles, and the young lady has been seuteuced to banishment to Siberia.