Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

CLIPPINGS.

The “Able-Bodied Liars’ Club” is an institution of Ottumwa, lowa. Minnesota has no less than 7,000 lakes, which take up over 2,700,000 acres of territory. The stone of which the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is composed is fast crumbling away. It is said that Gov. Waller, of Connecticut, is to become a partner in a New York law firm. A sparrow has built a nest in the left hand of the bronze statue of Daniel Webster, in Central Park, New York. Tux New Orleans Exposition is said to have the largest building in the world. It has thirty-three acres of floor area. The Prince Imperial of Austria speaks, it is asserted, every dialect. Jsnown in the Austrian dominions, except Tuikjeh.*^^ A farmer at Magnolia, N. 0., made SBOO last year off an acre of tuberoses.