Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — New England Ahead. [ARTICLE]

New England Ahead.

Connecticut again in 1882 led the United States in getting patents. During the year there were 17.861 patents granted at the office in Washington, and of those Connecticut people secured 794. The ratio is one to every 782 of our population. Next comes Rhode Island, one to eaeh 980, and Massachusetts, one to each 982 of in-habitants.*-H«rt/ord Courant. A mule owned by a captain on the Erie canal, was bought for S9O in 1858, at 3 years old. He has worked steadily I since then, on the canal, and has never been sick or disabled in any way: He has traveled on an average of 5,000 miles per annum, or 125,000 miles in all. . , Love is composed of so many sensations that something new of it can always be said.— Saint Prosper.