Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1899 — A Peculiar House. [ARTICLE]

A Peculiar House.

The most peculiar house in the United Kingdom Is probably the triangular one at Rushton, In Northamptonshire. Its design Is supposed to typify the Trinity. It has three stories, and each story has three windows on each of the three sides, while each of the windows In two of the three stories Is In the shape of a trefoil—the three-leaved shamrock. In each of the other windows there are twelve panes, arranged In three fours, and the panes throughout are triangular. Three gables rise on each side, and from the center, where their roofs meet, a three-sided chimney, surmounted by a triangular pyramid, terminates In a large trefoil. The smoke issues from three round holes on each of the three sides of the chimney. Three Latin inscriptions, one on each side of the house, have each thirty letters, while over the door there is another Latin Inscription of three words, the English of which Is, “There are three that bear record,” and on each side are the carved figures of three angels bearing shields. Inside the house each floor contains three three-sided apartments; the length of each of the walls, by outside measurement, Is thirty-three feet, four inches, that is, exactly thirty-three and one-third feet

W. R. Milburn, John Holmes, M. R. Dagger, E. L. Stetson, of Buena Vista County, lowa, report as follows of the Canadian Northwest as to its suitability for farming, and the advantages It offers to the agricultural Immigrant from the United States: “We came here solely to look up improved farms and, If suitable, to select such as pleased us best. We have not visited the homestead districts at all, though we believe them to be very Inviting. Our Inquiries have been confined solely to the district around Hartney, Deloralne and towards the Souris river In Manitoba. Our impressions of all that region are in every way satisfactory, and we have decided to go back to lowa at once, and, having disposed of our several Interests there, to return to Manitoba in the month of March next, and. effecting our purchase of Improved farms, which we find we can do at reasonable rates, immediately begin farming. We are greatly pleased with all that we have seen In that part of Western Canada. The soli we find to be more than equal to that of our own country for wheat growing, and the other conditions of climate, schools, markets, etc., are all that we could wish for.

“To show what an energetic man can do we may mention that we found one such at Hartney who had rented a farm on shares, receiving two-thirds of the returns as his share of the crop. When he came to sell his own produce he found that his two-tblrds, when converted Into cash, was enough to buy the farm he rented out and out, which he accordingly did, and is now Its owner. It Is our intention to Induce as many of our friends as possible, who are practical farmers, to remove from lowa to this country, where we believe there is a better future for the industrious man than Is now to be found anywhere on this continent. We are well known in our part of the State of lowa, and we invite correspondence from Its residents In all parts with regard to this region of Western Canada which we have visited, and to which we intend to return.”