Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

New York is to have a floating skatingnnk. ' Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, of New York, is 75 years old. The present value of cattle in Dakota is estimated at $8,000,000. A railway is projected between Washington and Mount Vernon. New Mexico spent $45,000 for churches and $6,485,000 for liquor last year. The inventor of barbs on fence wire receives a royajlty of $120,000 a year. ” Ex-Gov;'HrBBARD, of Texas, United States Minister to Japan, has sailed for his post of duty. All the prominent candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio served in the Union army. “Sarah," said a w*z “it’s all over town!’’ “What's all over town?" was the anxious Inquiry. “Mud.” Sarah's gyes JJlrs, FpELiNOHUYsEN became so much ittached to Washington during her reside ce there that she will probably remove thither permanently. A law prohibiting manual labor on Sunday has just gone into effect in Austria.