Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — ST. LOUIS’ BIG EVENT. [ARTICLE]

ST. LOUIS’ BIG EVENT.

A Brilliant Street Parade and a Grand Ball. ESt. Louis dispatch.] The seventh annual parade of Veiled. Prophets took place to-night, and was a very brilliant affair. It consisted of twenty-two floats, representing and illustrating about a dozen Arabian Nights stories, and was witnessed by an immense throng of people, Who densely packed the sidewalks and every available foot of space along the line of march. The usual ball in connection with this affair is 'now in progress at the Merchants* Excharqjfj amTis attendecbby the elite and fashion of the city. Over one hundred thousand strangers were in the city to-night. Mr. C. P. Huntington will erect a chapel in Harwinton, Conn., in memory of’ his mother, who lived in that town. The chapel will be of granite, and will cost from $F5,000 to $20,000. The “ Big Woods” of Minnesota well deserve the name, for they cover 5.000 square miles, or 3,200,000 acres of surface. t The average income of the 509 lords of England is $120,000 each. Their gross income is oyer $75,000,000. Three men were fined for swearing on the street in Philadelphia the other day.