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

FLOATING ITEMS.

CINCINNATI, It is related tbai an Irish wdruan in one of the flooded houses reoeivad $1 from the relief oommittee Saturday, and with it made the following original investment: Eighty cents worth of eggs and twenty cents worth of “tobaeder.” She was evidently observing Lent. There is one saloon-keeper who was driven oat by the high water with his family, who has retired from business, and has four or five houses of his own from which he obtains rent, and has money laid aside for, a rainy day, who is a daily applicant for relief from the oommittee. Another individual, who ia a contractor, president of two building associations, and Las money laid np, also accepts i;eli*i from the Same source. Saturday a female with a small babe in her arms called at the engine-house, and related a pitiful story of ber nnfortunate oiroumwt&uoee, was furnished with an abundance of goot She departed, and shortly after another wo* man' appeared on the soene, bearing the identic*! baby that had been’ there before. She through the same pathetic business, waa pro yided ? ot bb® ber predecessor, and went away rejoicing. Scarcely fifteen minutes had pa** w b® n a third one made her appearance, oarr *' ing the same precious specimen of infantile humanity. She tried the same old raoket, but tae machinery was out of gear, and the thing didn t operate.