Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1883 — SHORTS. [ARTICLE]

SHORTS.

Dennis Kearney is for woman snffragm Heels of the most fashionable shoes anl low. Wm. E. Dodge's estate is valued at $15,1 000,000 i I In 660 A. D. organs were first used ini ohurehes. , 'vJM Dark grapes do not make raisins.—[Oalil fornia letter. I Quioksilver—Halves and quarters ft B church fair. I A clean record—'lhe laundry bilk—Nervi York Journal. I The man who is always behind will havfl no followers. , In seventeen ststes the females outnuml ber the males I Gen. Sherman weighs 200 pounds JmH “only looks 140.” fl Peanut oil is now a principal ingredienl in toilet soap.—[Ex. ■ lowa has her first colored lawyer, ‘B young man from Chicago. I Miss Susan B Anthony is about to makß a prolonged tour in Europe. fl Yieuxtemps, the late violinist, left f lofl 000 worth of fiddles and bowß. fl “Night-cap socials,” to raise funds foB charities, are a Michigan novelty. v#.\|B England imports a billion eggs annuß .ally, and pays 310,000,000 for them. ? |B General Fremont’s son, who- I named after him, is a master in the navjß Josh Billings says; “Next to a olecuß conscience for solid comfort comas' aiß old shoe.” B The valuation of property in Buffolfl fifty years ago was 38,000,000. It isl now 3100,000,000. fl The manufacture and sale of octagon oB gold quarters is contrary to law. Bj A company is organizing in oountgfl to drain the valley of the City of MexioS Sinoe 1852 forty-two different liquojfl regii lating acts have passed the legislatarH of Maine. jjj A translation of Hiawatha into Greefl verse has recently been published at LeijSf zig dy M. Pervanoglou. Belleville, New Jersey, contains the onlßj genuine Chinese Joss house in the easterfl part of the United States. H We use 21,000,000 spools of thread year and three or four thousand cords <fi| wood in making the spools. The 12th of March is fixed I fl turn of the Princess Louise from tllfl B| mudas to the Canadian capital. flu H The Cincinnati fire departmenß jL H has a barge properly fitted for retSf flj fires in the inundated district Bhß| Paintings of ragged street urfl It find the readiest sale in New York arfllr leries. MM • pi .. i ivj?. flflHH