Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

Petroleum has been discovered in the Punjab, Hindostan. ’ A parson of Ottawa, Ont., resigned the other day because a brother clorgyman united In marriage a man and his deceased wife’s sister. Probably the wealthiest railroad conductor in America is employod on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road. He is said to-be worth 550,080. * > A member ot-a Kentueky church offered the bodies’ Aid society *5 If R# rnetnl er* would meet and make a quilt without saying a frord. Two dozen of the ladies - met at the parsonage and in two hours the quilt was finished, but they all say they would not do such a thing again for 850. A son of George Glace, while out hunting two miles below Sel'nsgrove, Pa., at a place known as the “Narrows,” treed a squirrel, and, in enlarging the hole in order to secure the,game, came upon a baid Bubstanpe'which pro'ved"to be a silver watch. Cutt:«gTt»deeper. he succeeded In taking out eleven ofAhem. Some five, years ago a jewelry Store m Bunbury was robbed of a lot of watches, audit is supposed that this is pqrt the plunder.