Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Boston’s fashionable set now call a dance a “band.” The lime burners of San Jacinto, Cal., use crude oil as fuel in place of wood and coal. Phya Phetchada has been appointed Siam’s minister extraordinary to the United States. A large number of school teachers have sailed for the Philippines, where they will be employed. | It is expected that 8,000,000 boxes of citrus fruit will be shipped from California this season. Yavapi County, Arizona, has decided to assess Senator Clark’s copper propefty at $6,000,000. Heretofore a tax of $24,000 has been levied on the United Verde mine on a valuation of $600,000. Senator Clark’s Arizona property now will cost him $240,000 annually. Miss Sophronlsba Breckinridge, daughter of Col. W. O. P. Breckinridge, passed the Qhicago University examinations fo* the degree of doctor of philosophy. ShS had previously received there the degree of master of science. She was the first woman lawyer to become a member of the Kentucky appellate be*