Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

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Mr. Samuel Eliot, son of President Eliot, has been appointed a proctor at Harvard. * Ben Butler was born Nov. 5, 1818, and he will celebrate his birthday the morning after election. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is to be at the head of the woman’s department in the New Orleans Exhibition. The Hanlon-Beach rowing race on the Paramatta River, Sidney, N. S. W., was witnessed by 70,000 people. William H. Vanderbilt has sent his cheek for SSOO “for the benefit of disabled policemen and the families of deceased members of the force” in New York. A volcanic tree is reported to exist in the Japanese village of Ono. It is sixty feet high, with a girth of ten feet, and said to'be centuries old. Every day a white sniokelike mist issues from Bie' top, lasting from early afternoon till evening. ■. Robert Browntno.4 aged poet, is said to Lave decided to visit this country.