Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1883 — SHORTS. [ARTICLE]

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Weather beaten —Venner. Well trained—Railroad employes. A brilliant gathering—cluster diamond. Eight of New York’s 25 governors are living. Delaware is to prohibit lottery advertise* meats. Olive suits most blonde faces as well as brunettes. L feimon Cameron will be eighty-lour next • Thursday. Victor Hugo was eighty-one years old, February 26. < Barbers say that all razors get tired, and need a few weeks’ rest. Mount Vernon parties are plentifully organized in Washington. No matter how large the amount gas bills are always light ones. Four turbaned Turks are working on a railway at Amsterdam, N. Y. The making of wax-paper for wrapping caramels is a large business. The envelope product of the country amounts to 7,000,000 per day. A Westpool, Mass, man, insane on history, claims to be 243 years old. Painesville, Ohio, grocers “veneer ice with butter, and sell it for solid.” Ten of the twenty-four aidermen in New York city sell liquor by the glass. The finest shops in a China city are these devoted to the sale of ooffees. The best fire-escapes is when your wife gets up in the morning and makes it—[Ex. The public works erected by the Italian government last year cost over $50,000,000. I think it not best to dispute where there is nd probability of convincing.—[SensibleMan. The average boy, when sent on an errand, develops wonderful “staying qualities.” Because he has worked as a heeler the shoemaker can not set himself up as a doctor. Wives who flirt with other wives’ husbands are called in London “husband snatchers.’’ Nathan Crosby has presided over the Lowell, Mass, police court for more than a third of a century. The Wesleyan Female College, of Macon Alabama, is said to be the oldest female college in the world. The average age of different men is put down thus; Merchants, fifty-five, Physicians and lawyers fifty-eight; farmers, sixty-one; clergymen, sixty-four and great geniuses, sdventy-five. It will be observed from the above that thejournalistic profession tends to longevity. Mr. Edward Kimball, the church debtraiser, lately helped several churches in '* Ban Francisco, Oakland, Los Angles, and other towns to relieve themselves of their financial burdens.