Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1899 — A Year of Important Events. [ARTICLE]

A Year of Important Events.

“In looking over the events that have happened during the years of my life,” laid an old resident to a Star reporter, ‘I think the year of 1851 produced the greatest number and the happenings were of a greater diversity of Interest. Jenny Lind came to this country "’that year under the $50,000 contract with Barnum, and sang her songs with wonderful sweetness and equally wonderful profits to Mr. Barnum. The sloop America won the cup for the fastest sailing, defeated the world, and the old ship still exists and can hold her own even against the modern boats with their extensive keels. Louis Kossuth visited America in 1851 and gave a great impetus to national and international polities. The first world’s fair, the Crystal Palace at London, was held In 1851, and though it was a long time ago it is not forgotten and has not been surpassed by the world’s fairs which have followed.—Washington Star.