Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — ODD STORIES. [ARTICLE]

ODD STORIES.

Is New Haven, Conn., 172 persons over 70 diod .ast year. The population is about 60,000. The terms of twenty*five United States Senators will expire in 1885, of whom fourteen are Democrats and cloven Republicans. As-ostrich raiser says that ostriches are plucked once a year when uud t 3 years at •go, and twice a year when older, yielding feathers at each plucking worth from S7O to s9o. ' The Pike's I*eak railway will probably be completed by Juty 4,1884.