Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

Cleveland is a Presbyterian. Big crop of Delaware peaches this year. The poor w’ord bosm will now get a rest. English papers are engaged in scientific discussion of the new American word “mugwump.” A Chinese gambler died at Portland, Ore., last week, leaving $15,000 in bank and a will providing for a gorgeous funeral in the old country. A New Yobk theatrical manager says that he receives on an average thirty-five or forty plays a week throughout the ,entire year. During three years he has accepted but three of these, and neither of them has yet been produced. Independence, Cal., has a horned, fish with rattles and tail like a rattlesnake.