Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

The London Stock Exchange has an orchestra composed of the members of the finest amateur musical organizations in the city. A mill employing fifty men is now engaged in making paper from the bagasse, or sugar cane refuse, which was once the greatest nuisance to the sugar grower. A woman of 97, now living in the South, recently had a proposal of marriage. She is Western by birth, is said to be wonderfully attractive and looks thirty years younger than she is. It Is purposed to remove the Grant statue in St. Louis from 12th street to Washington square, near the new city hall, mainly, apparently, to give unimpeded way for street car traffic. A “new” father in a Missouri town found a S2O gold piece tucked into the lining of a baby carriage he bought there, and in twenty-four hours there wasn’t a baby carriage left on sale" in the place. The broom factory in Colchester is to start up very soon with a full force of blind people. This institution is run by the Connecticut institute and industrial home for the blind, and will make all kinds of brooms. Prizes amounting to $15,000 and sl*s,000 Mexican money have been offered by the Mexican Ministry of Education and Public Works for the best design for a capitol building. The building is to cost $1,500,000, and to be Juo Eqiisre. One of Gen. Gordon's empty uniform cases, marked with his name, was found in one of the dervish boats recently captured by Gen. Hunter at El Dameth, near Berber, Africa. The case has been sent home to Gen. Gorden’s family. The British museum has books written on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, bone* and fiat stones, together With manuscripts on bark, ivory, leather, parchment, papyrus, lead, iron, copper and wood. It also has three copies of the Bible written on the leaves of the fan palm. “Pittsburg Is to light London.” It Is with this somewhat broad statement that a smoky city newspaper announces the fact that the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company has received an order from the Metropolitan Supply Company of London for an electric-lighting plant. The order calls for three dynamos of about 3,000 horse power each. The cost is estimated at about $450,000.