Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

The city of Philadelphia is more than twice as large as Boston, but arrests for drunkenness there the past year numbered only 23,107, against about 30,000 for Boston. A 3-year-old child was found a few days ago sitting at a spring near Williamsport, Pa., playing with a big rattlesnake. The reptile allowed itself to be pushed about with a chip in the hands of the baby. Important discoveries of gold are reported to have been made on the Island of Cayenne, near the Venezuelan coast. It Is thought there is a gold belt on the main land extending through Venezuela to Brazil. Will Tuttle of Charlestown, N. H., has a curious egg laid by one of his famous rough-and-ready Canadian hens, whose peculiarity lies in the fact that their feathers grow toward the head instead of in the opposite direction. The egg in question measures 7xß inches, and inside the perfect yolk was another perfect egg, as large as that of a partridge, with shell as hard as that which inclosed it. A porter at Lyons, France, was going to have his photograph taken while posing near the lion cage of a menagerie. The lion being asleep just then, the man patted the head to waken it. On withdrawing the hand he touched the bolt securing the door, and the door flew open. The lion jumped out and bit off the Imprudent man’s head, then he dragged the corpse back into the cage, and when “help” arrived there wasn’t much left for burial. Complaint is made that the new silver certificates, though beautiful specimens of the engraver’s art, do not wear well at all and that already many of them compare ill in appearance with older and less artistic bills. It is an indubitable fact that a curiously large number of these certificates have been more or less torn in the few weeks that have elapsed since they were issued and that they show a decided tendency to break instead of becoming soft and supple with use.