Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

The Rothschilds have loaned Egypt $1,250,000 until September. The Masons of Cleveland are erecting a temple at a cost of SIOO,OOO. The baby blanket of Samuel Adams is on exhibition in a Boston store window. The crown jewels in the Cathedral at Moscow axe said to be worth $12,000,000. They have twenty-eight base- ball clnbs and twenty brass bands in Salt Lake City. Ireland manufactures more linen than any other country on the globe, and wears ‘ less. During the. tobacco season Lynchburg (Va.) has sold 23,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco. t ' There is a shortage of 115,000,000 spruce logs in Maine this year.