Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1908 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

DIRECTOR’S MEETING. There will be a regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago & Wabash Valley Railway Company, held at the office of the company in Kersey. Indiana, on Thursday, July 30th, 1908, for the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing year, and such other business as may legally come before said stockholders. Benjamin J. Gifford, President OHIO FARMERS INSURANCE CO. Has been doing business for 60 years, writing fire, lightning and cyclone insurance on city, town and farm buildings and live stock; also hay in stack and barn. It will be to your interest to see me before you have your insurance written up. Octlsdsw J. C. Porter, Agent. Fishing with Fcrty-Foot Rods. In sea fishing at Biarritz, France, some remarkably long and heavy rods are employed. We think a 20-foot salmon rod or roach pole is a pretty good length, but our friends at Biarritz use rods over 40 feet in length. In fishing from the walk at the lighthouse the rods are balanced on the railing by means of a wood rest fitting the iron bars. A line about the length of the rod is used, three or four hooks and a light sinker. At La Pointe Plato rods of lessor length and weight are used, but even these are not featherweights by any means. Reels, according to Vicomte Henri de France, are known to these sea anglers, but are seldom used.

Gray and Brown Camels. The length of a stage varies throughout Persia, depending -on tile character of the country, and is reckoned- In far sake, the old Greek parasang. The farsak is a most elastic and uncertain measure, and as animals are paid for per farsak, as many as the credulity st the traveler will allow are crowded Ato each stage. “How far,” I once asked an old Kurdish muleteer, “Is a farsak?" “As far as on« can distinguish a gray from a brown camel,” was the discreet answer.—Atlantic. News for the Boetonegp—The beans in my garden are ten inches high.