Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1883 — A Large and Respectable Caucus. [ARTICLE]

A Large and Respectable Caucus.

n - Tb® story of HaiwiibaL Hamlin's caueußin Maine, upon one occasion, is probably not apocryphal. There were only two present—the veteran Senator and the one whom he made Chairman. But the credentials of the delegates certified that they were elected at “a large and respectably caucus of the Republicans of “because,” as Mr. Hamlin explained to the puzzled Chairman, “you are large and I am respectable.”—Boston Herald. The Milwaukee Sentinel says the reason a woman never puts on the gloves in a ring is because it would take her too long. She would always demand a size smaller than she could wear. The Treasurer of the immense colony of South Australia says that the population is odlv 300,000, and advises a grant of $200,000 to eneonrage immigration.