Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

An electric tricycle is being imported from England. Snakes are being killed in the streets of San Antonio, Tex. Mushbooms have pushed up the asphalt pavement in Beading, England. The perceptible earthquakes of the civilized world are estimated to average 110 per annum. "i. ■ There are 22,200 pensioners on the rolls who draw their annuities from the Syracuse (N. Y.) agency. The Tennessee mountains are becoming fashionable as a summer resort among people in the South. A Meridian, Miss., man while recently digging a well found a petrified snake covered with iron pyrites. A New York jeweler has invented a process for utilizing the city's garbage in the manufacture of gas. Thousands of cattle are perishing in the State of Queietafo for want of water. They never had a worse drought. During the first six months of the current year, the sum of $69,221,060 has been invested in new industries in the South. Twenty-one thousand widows of soldiers of the war of 1812 are stated to be still drawing pensions from the Government. t Holyoke, Maas., js expected soon to become not only the greatest paper manufacturing but the greatest paper exporting city in the world. *