Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — John. [ARTICLE]

John.

Chinamen are beginning to monopolize a large share of the business of .furnishing wood for’the Central Pacific Railroad. The Chinese in Nevada are lightening $5 gold pieces by sweating them. One of these coins was tested by a Eureka merchant the other day on delicate scales, and it was found to have lost just one-fifth (slj of its original value. An lowa paper states that mental labor is performed more easily before breakfast than at any other time. If anybody knows what it is to think with an empty stomach for inspiration an lowa editor does. About the only reference to base ball in holy writ that we remember is where Rebecca goes to the right field with a pitcher. The right field for water. It is a cold day when a tramp freezes to death. . • , V,