Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — PEOPLE AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Beer in Kansas is “sea foam.” Miss Ada Briggs, of Philadelphia, weighs 532 pounds. < Senator Payne has a son old enough to be a grandfather. A Boston flrm offers a prize of $2,000 for the best American opera. “Aunt Miley,” of Nashville, 100 yearsoj£, was married the other day to a man forty years her Junior*. .... ..—_ The only excuse left by Miss Hewitt, of Keokuk, lowa, for shooting herself was that ahe had the “ blues.” A doctor in Rockland, Me., says the girl* there chew white cotton rags for their complexion, and that as the rags are bleached with arsenic they improve the color of their cheeks, and break down their health at th*> same time. The lowa contains fifty-eight Union war veterans.