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

POINTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

A liAdy TU in Peabody, Mass, recently, with twins and an odd thing about them la that their birthdays come on different days of the week, in different months and in different years.. One was bom Just before midnight on Deo. 8), 1882. and the other Just after toe clock shrank 12, so* that the birthday oame Jan. t, 1888. The matter does not know which is the older. Thb.Los Angeles (CaL) Htrald says that about a year ago a water spout fell in a oanon near thePegin Rancho, raisiftg IQ Paso creek so high that all vegetation wan washed away and the oanon left bare as % desert The stream was at that time small, sweet and pellucid. Far the entire yea * succeeding, however, it has been nearly double in dze, has never been clear, and u even thicker with mud than the Sacra, mento. Neither has vegetation reappeared to any extent The people of the locality think the cloud-burst opened a mud and hence tiie change Ts