People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Short Talk. [ARTICLE]

Short Talk.

In this country there are more women practicing medicine than any other profession. “Adirondacks” is an Indian word meaning “wood eaters,” and was a term applied in derision to a defeated Indian tribe driven to the mountains by the Iroquois, and forced to live there on bark and berries. The ordinary folding fan is supposed to have been invented in Japan, in the seventh century, by a native artist, w T ho derived the idea from the way in which the bat closed its wings. The merchants of Norfolk, Va.. say that this season has been the slowest for the peanut fnarket that they have had for years. Thousands of bushels of stock are stored, with no demand, and it is only a few weeks before the new crop is ready for the market. The recent severe storm was responsible for at least one good deed. It w’ashed several pieces of coal out of a ledge on the farm of Charles Brown, at Georgetown. Me., and explorations have shown that coal in paying quantities abounds on the farm.