Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

The railroads of Pennsylvania employ 70,000 men. , ] IT will take three months and $2,000 to ’mount Jumbo. The Giant Monument fund in New York has reached nearly $83,000. Carlotta has turned her forty-sixth year, and is recovering her reason. Hannibal Hamlin has worn an overcoat for but two winters in his life. The old home in Savoy of Jean Jacques Bonsseau is to ba turned into an hotel. Mrs Van Cott has more magnetic power than any other lady preacher in this country. • Florence Nightingaije is one of the English contributors to the Gordon memorialfund. Cola Stone, the champion longdistance wheelman ofthe world, has just died in St Louis. > > / . j - The Mills Building on Broad street, New Fork, gives office room to 3.000 persons.