Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — GLEAMINGS. [ARTICLE]

GLEAMINGS.

Watermelons are selling in Florida for 5 cents eash. The annual income of the Sultan of Turkey is #15,000, (M). , Lyons, lowa, has a match-factory whioh turns out 300 gross per day. Thirty-four men in Uvalde county, Texas; , own #300,000 worth of sheep apiece, The poet of the Hartford Post speaks of' an old straw hat as a symphony in last year’s sunburn. A gentleman of Sumfcerville, Walton oonnty, Fla, has established a gopher park, and is said to have 930 head at work. The Baptists are about to invest from #75,000 to #IOO,OOO in the erection of a denominational college in North Dakota It is estimated that the miners and mechanics of Butte, M. T., have on deposit at the three banks in that city about #300,000. The Missouri State Teachers’ Association? in its session, passed a resolution that no member in the association shgiild receive the title of Professor. Wmfc The liquor-dealers of San Buenaventura, CaL, have resolved to withdraw their patronage from the two local papers because the latter advocates high license. In Portland, Ore., the ship-owners claim they have the advantage in view of the large expected wheat harvest on the coast, and are generally asking full rates for freight. The peaceful community of McPherson, Kaa, which has a population of about 3,000, gets along with a police force which consists of a City Marshal, who is also ’ Street Commissioner of the town. A ton of silver coin is now being turned out daily at the Philadelphia Mint The most of this is in dollars and small coin, notably dimes The demand for 5-cent nickels is in advance of the ability to supply- - . The American arid the Mexican nickel are engaged in a tight race at El Paso, Texas The latter, though worth i V cents less, Is rather getting away with the former, for some unknown reason, though at .Laredo and other points on the Rio Grande the merchants refuse to receive the Mexican nickel at par or face. The Denver Tribune is responsible for the statement that a “Gout Club” has recently been organized in that cltv, with Judge Steok, President; Ward Lanoion, Secretary; Judge Ward, Umpire; and J. R Belford, General Inter] ocutor. it is generally known as the “Historical Club,” inasmuch as these gouty philosophers generally dovote themselves to the discussion of historical questions, including such abstruse inquiries as “Why didn’t Moses have a front name?”