Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

Cleveland is a Presbyterian. Big crop of Delaware peaches this year. The poor word boom will now get a rest. English papers are engaged in scientific discussion of the new American word “mugwump. ” 0 A Chinese gambler died at Portland. Ore., last week, leaving $15,000 in bank and a will providing for a gorgeous funeral in the old country. A New York theatrical manager says that he receives on an average thirty -five or forty playß a week throughout the entire year. During three years he has accepted but three of these, and neither of them has yet been produced. Independence, Ca\, has a homed fish with rattles and tail like a rattlesnake.