Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1883 — POINTS FOR THE CURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

POINTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

A stove made In 1828 in York, Pa., was recently sold for #I,OOO, A Bkaneateubs (N. T.) youth gave his sister a live pig in a fancy box for a wedding present A Louisiana woman, recently, married, is Reported to have become a mother at the age of 79 yearn This was a renewing of her youth to some puxposa An image of the human head has been found lU&feet below the surface, in a coal mine in Dallas county. lowa It is regarded as the work of a prehistoric man 1» the 1 town of Gameron, Steuben county, there reside ten fanners whose farms join each othar They had ten babe*,' aud there Is only three weeks difference in their age*. An Athens (Ga) man reoently walked on th j shadow of a lamp post fifty yards, under the- Impression that it was a efll to a bridge When he got to the end a friend had to lead him off .