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

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A citizen of New Orleans is making ■ fortune selling iced tea. Taller Dog and Raw Dog are the names of two little towns south of Heppner, Oregon. * i Mr. A. W. Harmon, of Savannah, has ■ team of gray horses which has taken the Jone hundredth bridal couple to the nuptial Thirty thousand two-horse trucks are employed in the business of New York city. Upwards of $20,000,000 is invested in this industry. A CURIOSITY in the shape of a single stem from a rosebush, containing 139 roses and opening buds, was on exhibition in Santa Rosa last week. A New York grocer, who sells kindling w6od to the poorat 3 cents a bundle, figures that he gets $34.92 for accord of hemlock worth $4 up country. Miss Marion Booth, a female compositor in the Pascagoula 1 (Miss.) office, is only fifteen years old, but she sets 1,200 ems solid long primer, newspaper measure, in one hour. Mexico is afflicted with a Inge numbet of female counterfeiters. «, •