Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — AMONG OUR EXCHANGES. [ARTICLE]

AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

A California farmer has raised . three watermelons weighing 104, ninety-Wgnt and and eighty-four pounds. ’ v A large cougar killed and partially dCr voured a 2-year-old bull belonging to Charier.; King, of Whatcom, Washington Territory, recently. RoosBfELT street. New York, has suddenly become famous as the residence of the only man in the United States who owns a white I. li 11 n,I ITffl- n | , The stomach of a di-HU eo'irififlrwßk'wnwl' by M. Kennedy, of Wallingford, Ct., contained a steelyard weight, a nut screw, the blade of a knife and a king-bolt. Is the year 1872 the consumption of copper in the United States was 34.000,00(1 pounds, and Since that time it has steadily increased. Last year it was 77,000,000, ', A Vermont man, who stole a cow from his neighbor’s barn, found on getting her home that it was his own cow, which his neighbor had stolen earlier in the night. The funeral of Lucy Fish Curtis, who died at West Randolph, Vt., at the age of about 100 years, was attended by all her six children, the youngest bein g 55 and the oldest 83 years of age. A sta-TCe to the inventor of the manufacture of soda is about to be erected at Issoudun, his native place. When this great chemist was alive tide world refused him a breakfast; now that he is dead, why, a monument, of course. John P. Howard, of Burlington, hat given to the University of Vermont, ■ ' ; A - ' " ’ ■