Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

Mrs. Jerusha Stowell, of Peru, Mass., Is 96 years of age. Recently she fell and fra©tured her hip. The wealth of Massachusetts, as assessed for tax purposes, is $1,781,297,061, an increase of $47,090,000 on the valuation of 1882. William E. Brockway, the forger, began life as an apprentice in a job printing office in New Haven thirty years ago or a UttiO over. Gen. Neal Dow, of Maine, has just received from an ex-Confederate soldier a pistol which was taken from him when .he was captured during the rebellion. Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but it isn’t as healthful as dirt. Pittsburgh, the j dirtiest city in the country, is aleo the health!I est. Death rate 16.2 per 1,000 last year. 1 One purpose which Mr. Kasson has In ra- ! tiring from public life is to devote himseM ! more closely to literature. He finds it im* I possible to do this and to properly attend to the duties of a Congressman, j Georoe Grimshaw, of Langlade county, ! Wis., who is represented to be 104 years old, last year cleared the timber'from an acre ol hard-wood laud, and during the summer ! raised 150 bushels of potatoes. «The machinery of an ore mlno at Carson, Nev., suddenly stopped, and among the ort was found the pulveri ed remains of hundreds of trout vhach had been swept through a broken screen in the mill-race into the supply pipe-,.-The Postofflce Department has decided how to spell the bothorsoino name, "Allegany,” I which has been spelled In four different ways, 1 all of them correct. The matter was referred to several historical societies, and in accordance with- their verdict the word is to be spelled in the poetoffieee “Allegany,” ! which certainly has the advantage of simplicity. ~ | Thbre are 626 Indians still living in FlorV da.