Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Northern capital is used to a considerable extent in developing Southern industries. Over five-sixths of the silk manufactured in Turkey is exported to Western Europe. The banks in the Indian Territory have to keep a cashier who can speak the Indian language. The Province of Manitoba, almost the same size as Great Britain and Ireland, has only 210,000 inhabitants. Theye are lk',ooo islands between Madagascar and India. So far us known at present only 000 of them are inhabited. Jenner’s famous discovery that persons who contracted cowpox while engaged in milking never had smallpox, dates from 170 G, The Philippines a,re known to possess over 400 species of trees, aud a more careful survey will bring the number nearly to 300. Sugar City, Colo., is seven months old, and has a population of 2,000. A new sugur refinery costing SBOO,OOO has just been ppened. A high wind at Cumberland, Md., a flock of wild turkeys into the streets, and quite a number of the stragglers were captured. A curious criminal law exists in Greece. A man w r ho is there sentenced to death waits two years before the execution of the sentence. A man who has just died in East London retired some years ugo on a modest competence acquired by selling hot water at 1 cent a quart. The New York Journal says there are five millionaires in New York who should pay taxes on $234,000,000. The amount they now pay on is $5,850,000,' ‘ " John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the Standard Oil magnate, has subscribed $250,000 for the founding of a New York institution for learning for poor boys and girls. Robert Wilcox, delegate to the House of Representatives from Huwaii, has received SI,OOO mileage, the largest mileage claim ever paid to a member of that body. A woman in Fort Hamilton, N. Y., has filed a petition praying the conrt to enjoin her son from courting a certain young woman who lives in a near-by town.