Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — THIS AND THAT. [ARTICLE]

THIS AND THAT.

_ “Liquid gunpowder" is the latest invention. A Philadelphia girl, 12 years old, is a mother. - r Ninety out of <Kery hundred predictions made by the French Weather Bureau last year proved (rue, to a dot. . Y Ogontz, the famous palace built by Jay Cooke, has become a young ladies’ seminary. It cost sl, COO,OOO. Gen. Lew Wallace’s story, “Ben Star," paid him (3,200 last year in royalties.