Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — SHORTS. [ARTICLE]

SHORTS.

Kansas has as a million of people now Buttons are small for dresses, targe for wraps. How to get out of a scrape—let your beard grow. All laoes are fashionable, and thia is to be a lace season. The traveling cotton-gin is a new enterprisein the south. > A French doctor says Bismarck is good for twenty years yet. Fully 8500,000 is invested in truck farms around Savaunah. Greek priests, unlike Catholic pricsta, have wives and children. More than 3,000 Central freight oars pass Batavia. N, daily. * The timbered lands of Arizonia embrace an area of 5,760,000 acres. They are Iplanting orange groves all along the Mississippi coast If men do us an evil turn we write it in marble; if a good one in dust One Rochester store has graduated a dozen married clerks in a year. An Ulster, N. 1., man has an apple, preserved in spirits, grown in 1787. Subscriptions have opened at Berlin for the sufferers by the floods in America. Clasps on the collars in and the neok of drees take the place of brooches and lace pins. The one railroad in all Greece is fire miles long and each mile of it took a year to build. Gambetta’s father has alarge colleotion of his son’s letters which he proposes to publish. Goode, the assailant of Queen Victoria in 1887, died in the Breedmoor lunette asylum the other day. Georgia has had sixty-thre governors from 1733 to 1883. The first governor after Oglethorpe was Stephens. It is said that Oapt. Howgate, the defaulting signal service officer, is spending the winter very pleasantly in Florida.