Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

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A citizen of New Orleans is making a fortune selling iced tea. Yaller Dog and Raw Dog are the names of two little towns south of Heppner, Oregon. Mb. A. W. Habmon, of Savannah, has a team of gray horses which has taken the one hundredth bridal couple to the nuptial ceremonies. Thirty thousand two-horse trucks are employed in the business of New York city. Upwards of $20,000,000 is invested in this industry. A curiosity in the shape of a single stem from a rosebush, containing 139 roses and opening buds, was on exhibition in Santa Rosa last week. A New York grocer, who sells kindling wood to the poor at 3 cents a bundle, figures that he gets $34.92 for a cord of hemlock worth $4 up country. Miss Marion Booth, a female compositor in the Pascagoula (Miss.) Star office, is only fifteen years old, but she sets 1,200 ems solid long primer, newspaper measure, in one hour. Mexico is afflicted with a large number of female counterfeiters.