Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

Peter McCrail died in Cranston, R. 1., jail, where he was committed for debt? TwO hundred hair-pins were found in the stomach of a cow killed in Logan County. Ky. ? Poor old Vanderbilt has left only $64,000,060 registered Government 4 per cent, bonds. He gave his son for pocket money $7,000,000. The pronunciation of Joaquin should be us if spelled Wah-keen, giving the “a" the sound it has in ball, and accenting the second syllable. MULBERRY, Ohio, has a colored citizen named William Long, who claims to, be 145 years old, and isn’t sure but that he saw Christopher Celnmbns. A Boston woman warns train-boys through the Globe that “if they throw any of Col. Ingersoll s lectures in my lap I shall certainly throw them out of the window. " Munkacsy's picture of the crucifixicfti, painted for the collector, Sedelmeyer, is so big that it required many horses and men to transport it from the pointer’s studio to the gallery, which had to be enlarged in order to receive it >