Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1892 — A Few Items. [ARTICLE]

A Few Items.

The hammock girl is in full swing. When you open a window on'a railway train the first thing to catch.*your eye is a cinder. —[Boston Bulletin. The New York Pyess Club expects to hold aii art exhibition and sale in February next for the benefit of its building-fund. Senator Gray, of Delaware, has invaded the prim precincts of the United States Senate Chamber in a pair of •Russet shoes. Emanuel Stephens, a lad of fourteen, died at Carthage, Mo., from the effects of being struck on the knee by a buckle in a harness. Metal match-boxes have been put on the market in the shape of profile heads and busts of Cleveland and Harrison, and the designs are copyrighted. An enterprising Philadelphia publisher contemplates bringing diit an edition of Shakespeare in words of, one syllable for use in tho primary schools. There are three places known where green snow is found. One of these places is near Mt. Heela, Iceland, another fourteen, miles east of the mouth of the Obi, and the third near Quito, South America. The Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts has opened the competition lor the most tempting of all its prrafes, the. European, scholarship, providing for a year’s abroad, td women on the same men students. Prospective, Housemaid- 1 ne * lo 'jse an’ the wages suits me well enoughNow, will yez please let me see yqur husband's portrait soc n aee what kind of a looking mau he lsj —, Boston Beacon- - j In California bands of coolies hivo rented large traces of land, forlho purpose of raising vegetables forftbo San Francisco market. - <