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

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Tbambs cost Solano, Cab, $20,000 the past year. > Boys as pages are now popular features at Eastern weddings. A BROOM brigade in South Dakota lately saved a town from destruction from prairie fire. Ben: Pebley Poobe says he has shaken hands with seventeen Presidents of the United States. ■Thus far this season over fifty persons have committed suicide over gaming losses at Monte Carlo. Col. McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, says: "'Success is the reward of .who mind their oWn business.” Thibty-five thousand dollars is said to have been the price paid by the English publishers for the copyright of Gen. Gordon's diary. It will not fill more than one ordinary volume. Thebe are 700 Chinese scholars in twen- ' ty-nine New York Sunday schools.