Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — Freak of Nature. [ARTICLE]

Freak of Nature.

The West Chester. Pa.. News reports a curious freak of nature in that vicinity. Two good-sized streams of water meet at right angles on almost level ground, each having a heavy fall on reaching the point. The water ofboth streams meet but neither is impeded in its course. They cross like two roads and continue in their respective beds. The late George Peabody’s gift of $2,500,000 to provide dwellings and lodging houses to the poor of London has now grown, by the addition of rents and interest, to a total of $5,117,230, while the land and buildings under the care of the trust are valued at $6,169,225 more. Up to the end of last year there had been 5,071 buildings furnished to the artisans and laboring poor of London, The New York Press says that since the days when “the captain with his whiskers took a sly glance” at the ladies no such sensation in the hirsute line has taken place as the shaving off of the whiskers of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. He is the same Talmage, however, whiskers or no whiskers.