Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1883 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Mahone is bald-headed and has grity whiskers. Irving, the actor, is a continual cigarette smoker. Matthew Arnold does not like American newspapers. - Thomas Nart is talking about starting an illustrated weekly. ' Next year’s crop of Mormon immigrants is estimated at 75,090. A rainbow was seen at night, recently, in Orange, Tex., while the moon Was oiut oi Sight. ■. May Forney, daughter of the late J. Forney, writes fashion articles for Philadelphia papers. Good butter retails in Tuscon, Arizona, at 54.2 K a pound, while eggs are in demand at 65 cents per dozen. On the person of a thief recently eflptured in Hartford, Ct., was found a dra'it for $1,028.55, dated June 24, 1844. An Arkansas editor announces that he is compelled to retire from his paper on account of being so afflicted with the gout. ’ “Game hash” is one of the dishes served at the Yellowstone Park hotel, but visitors are said to be somewhat suspicious of it. The authorities of Grand Rapids, Mich., have given orders to the undertakers to take funeral processions through the back streets. Lord Coleridge speaks of Nathaniel Hawthorne as “our grentest-writer, the master of an exquisite and ah absolutely perfect style.” The grave caved in nt a Hartford, (Ct..) fun Oral, the.otijer day, just as the collin was to be lowered, undjone of the bearers went withit. , Ex-Senator Gwin, although 78 years old* is as erupt and sturdy as an oak. Gen. Jackson appointed him United States Marshal for Mississippi fifty years ago. At Montgomery, Ala., Mr. Beecher told his audience that if he had been livieg In the s«uth at the oatbreak cl the war, he would undoubtedly have been a Confederate. A two fcot In jength wa» killed in Faj'else county, Ky., recently.