Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

George W. Cable, the novelist, weighs only 100 pounds. Thirty thousand patents were issued last year in Great Britain, against 20,000 in this country. Fashionable young ladies must have photographs of their pet cats to be up to tbe times nowadays. Nearly SBO,OOO was sunk at Portland, Oregon, by a Si. Louis Journalist in endeavoring to establish the Northwest, which has ceased to exist. Probably the oldest log cabin in tbe country is now standing near Montgomery, Ala. It was built in 1794. and for fifty yeairs previous to the rebellion was occupied as a house for farm slaves. ~ Andrew J. Weaver, of Greenville, Pennsylvania, drove bis daughter from the house, broke some furniture, and then killed himself with a revolver. On several occasions he had shown signs of insanity. He was _• brother of Gen. Weaver, or lowk. V the late cold spell in Southern Oregon killed thousands of robins and bluejays.