Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — Where Did He Stop. [ARTICLE]

Where Did He Stop.

History relates that zEspp, the poet, once paid s4oi>,ooo for a single supper, but the name of the American summerresort hotel at which he was stopping is not' given. It may be that Mr. JEsop, after an enforced fast of a few months, succeeded in selling a spring poem, and resolved to expend the entire sum he received therefor on one good square meal. — Norristown Her- _ old. - ~ - - ~ The largest log of black walnut which has ever been seen in this country has been brought to New York. It came from the village of Peregeoux in the Pyrenees, and is nine feet in diameter, twenty—even feet in circumference, and weighs 22,000 pounds. It is valued at $2,000.■ THE birth rate in England is 33 per 1,000, and the death rate 20 per 1,000. At this rate the natural growth of the population would be nearly half a million a year, but the real incre'ase is much less, owing toemigration and occasional epidemics.