Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — MIXED LOT. [ARTICLE]

MIXED LOT.

With a nice discrimination Bishop Brooks alludes to one of the reverend gentlemen who took delight in opposing his confirmation as that “dear moth-eaten angel.” ___ , Col. Polk,the head of the Farmers' Alliance, is a man of medium stature with iron gray hair, a long pointed white beard and an .uuusuaUy intelli*gent face. He is twenty-five years old> At Mrs. Mackav’s recei t elaborate reception, the first she; has given in her new London palace, the hostess was dressed very plainly in pale amber satin, brocaded in a floral design. She wore no jewels whatever. J. H. Wade, of Cleveland, expects to pay $250,900 for the elegant steam yacht now in process of construction for him in that city, and he claims that it will be the finest craft of the kind in the world when completed. One dollar a minute is the charge for using the new telephone line be twoen London and,, Paris. Distance about 230 miles. Forty cents a minute is the price between New York and Washington—about 240 miles. For fourteen years a “Son of the Marshes’’ in Scotland has been try ing to gat a sight of a wild animal in the act of guarding its young in the time of danger. He has tramped day after day for that purpose, b'.r» without aucoess. aar-*-'