Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

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Fleetwood. Pa., claims a bull-ffog measuring eighteen inches from nose to stern. It is said that one-quarter of the visitors to Saiatoga are made ill by too much mineral water. Prof. Greener, the called graduate of Harvard,, threatens to writes novel, based on race distinctions. Florence Nightingale is 64, and is held in great reverence stilb wherever she goes in Europ?. Smugglers have been carrying watches into Canada hidden in holes scooped in copies of the Bible. Yellow fever, which is now raging epidemic in some parts of Mexico, has shown its eccentricity by attacking cattle. A California Indian recently took over $7,000 worth of gold from a “pocket” he found in the mountains of Shasta County. An insane inventor in Connecticut has invented a locomotive which will allow two trains to pass each other on the same track. Nervous Boston ladies, left without male protectors in the house at night, make themselves secure by sprinkling the stairs with tacks. » - Paper money is 10 per cent, more valuable coin in China.