Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — THIS AND THAT. [ARTICLE]

THIS AND THAT.

, '-u Queen Victoria’s private fortune is estimated at about $30,000,000. A London syndicate has agreed to take the Northern Pacific second-mortgage bonds. The upper classmen of Princeton have formed a law and order society to prevent the hazing of freshmen. Philadelphia has about four hundred building and loan societies, doing an annual business of about $16,000,000. John B. Tallman, who recently died at Lynn, Mass., left $30,000 to the Young Men’s Christian Association with which to prosecute the saloon-keepers of that place. In a Baltimore bagnio, Thomas C. Hance shot and killed his wife, who had deserted him and returned to the life of shame She had led before their marriage, two years ago. , The man who advertised: “Wanted a silent partner,” must have wanted to marry a mute.