Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1883 — AMONG OUR EXCHANGES. [ARTICLE]

AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

Champaign county. 111., has 50,603 bushels of apples. Birds are dying by thousands in Louisiana on accout of lack of water. The priests of Brittany have ordered the Breton girls not to sell their hair. A §heldrake, said to be the prettiest bird in America, was recently killed near Pittsford, N. Y. European immigration to the Argentine Bepublic is increasing. Last year the arrivals numbered 51.009. A single pumpkin vine on the farm of Dr. W. M. Clark, six miles south of Nashville, bore sixty-nine pumpkins. “A religious crank ” is suing a Hartford (Ct.) paper for $7,000 damages for libel, in alluding to him iu the above manner. Miss Emily Faithfull is going to Canada to see whether there are opportunities -in the border dlstiicts For poor girls from London. Far up in the spiral of a conch shell, fished up out of deep water at .Jacksonville, Fla., an entire leaf of a Methodist hymn-book was found. A New York girl says the women who are are making so much noise about tight lacing, practiced ’the habit themselves until they got so stout they couldn't. When the tailors dined together in Paris last month the menu of the feast was found in the pocket bf a tiny coat that rested on the plate of each guest. Warren County, Tenn., is studying ovat * buzzard with one perfectly white wing.