Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

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A German statistician finds that there are 1,000,000 blind persons in the world. A Georgia couple were married in the graveyard, with a tombstone for the’altar. The mane of a mare rescued from a burning stable at . Manchester, N. H., turned white. .■ ■ Sam Small, the converted humorist, is assisting Sam Jones in his revival meetings in the South. The town of Brooklyn, Conn., has voted SSOO toward a monument to Gen. Putnam,