Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1901 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Sinners are always eager for tracts —of land. . The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.—Mencius. London has the poorest water service of any of the large cities of the world. There are many occasions on which It Is wiser to hold a conference than to let it go. For an army of 110,000 men and 10,000 horses for three months, it is estimated that 11,000 tons of food and forage are necessary. The Russian ministry of communication has decided to adopt petroleum for generating motive power on the locomotives on all railways. A'motor-car has been designed for towing cabal-boats. At a recent wlal It towed a beavily-ladeD barge at tlw rate of three miles an houf with the greatest case. It Is estimated that the Canadian gold fields yielded last year 1,257,802 ounces of gold, valued at $20,000,000. Compared with the preceding year, 1809, this Is an Increase In ounces of about 250,000. and In value of $5,000,000. Romap dandles In the first, second and third centuries of our era wore heavy rings In winter, which they exchanged for others of lighter weight daring the summer. ~ There are sixteen cities out of the 129 largest cities which have a greater sum invested In public libraries—that Is, owned by the city—than New York Daring tbe next few years, however, there will be erected In New York City the finest library building, excepting the Congressional Library, at Washington, In the United States.