Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

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Enterprising sporting men of Leadville are about to open “a gambling-house for ladies in the carbonate camp. ” The increase in the population of Paris since 1876 has been 251,122. The total population is now 2,239,928. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and William Winter, the well-known dramatic critic, were born the same day in October, 1836. An air-tight lifeboat was recently sent safely through the Niagara whirlpool, but was totally wrecked before reaching Queenstown, several miles below the falls. Hugo Barthol, a Hamburg clerk, has just completed the longest bicycle journey on record. In ten weeks and five days he covered 2,850 German miles, including several long stretches across mountain ranges. ‘ J '* The police of New Yorkwre sons > H placed under electric vnrwi’Wuq