Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

CLIPPINGS.

A Winona (Minn.) hermit flies a black flag over his but. He is not troubled with agents. Edison hasn’t stopped inventing for good. He ia busy just now looking up safe and profitable investments. A spabbow has built her nest in’the left hand of the bronze statue of Daniel Webster in Central Park, New York. A fashionable young lady in New York has had her hair tinted a beautiful chestnut color to match her saddle-horse’s mane. Babe and lovely orchids are the flower of the moment ip London. Everybody who is anybody wears them in shoulder knot or buttonhole. The greenfinch begins to pipe at 1:30 o’clock in the morning, the blackcap at 2:30, and the quail half an hour later. The sparrow is lazy and the last to rise. Messrs. Beck, Edmunds, and Ingalls, are said to be the only present members of the United States Senate who take snuff, and they do not do so regularly. The Aldrieh family, which will soon hold a convention at Saratoga, includes Senator Aldrich, of Bhode Island, and three judges, respectively of California, Georgia, and Massachusetts. **" 1 An Englishman has written a three-vol-ume work on the danger at yawning.