Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1876 — Restoration of Independence Hall. [ARTICLE]

Restoration of Independence Hall.

—Mr. Ethno is getting on bravely in his restoration of Independence Hall. The coats of thick paint and other coverings have been taken from the walls and stairways, and all the fine old carving brought to light. The old bell is in the entry, and on the walls are panels giving a Clear and concise history of the important deeds done in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary years. Mr. Etting has collected a large number of historical portraits of great - interest; the members of the Continental Congress hang on the walls in one room, and below them are the very chairs and the table that they used. A second large room is made a kind of museum. Among its attractions already collected are a grand, stately picture of George 111. in his youth ; full lengths of William and Mary and Queen Anne; Sir Peter Lely’s portrait of Charles IL; the Sharpless collection of cabinet pictures in colored crayons, including all the men and women of any note in this country from 1787 to 1800; some exquisite china and glass, fine old ftirniture, and every thing that had to do with the life of that age. The Hall is already a most interesting place to visit. —Philadelphia Cor. Worcester (Mass.} tipy. The latest matrimonial romance of the stage is rather more romantic than the average run of these affaires de cceur. 'The leading partner of a well-known and very wealthy firm of 4 London solicitors, while enjoying an evening at a theater, was smitten with the charms of a certain lady of the corps de ballet. Something happened. The rich lawyer, not over young himself, but with intentions strjctly honorable, obtained an introduction to thefascinating corypbee, and very soon the acquaintance ended in marriage, he over sixty, she under twenty. The handsome girt belonged to a humble family of eleven children, and by one of those outbreaks of generosity which elderly solicitors so rarely commit, he has undertaken to support the whole batch of them. The new wife, too, must be fitted for a position “unto which she was not born,” and the doting husband has accordingly engaged masters of “all the accomplishments” to give her lessons. Mr. M. occupies a splendid mansion in the West End, and employs half a dozen servants to minister to his wants. On certain days, lam told, the ex-ballet girl, seated in an elegantlyappointed carriage, drives her pair or ponies far away from the West End to her mother’s abode in street, an event which produces no small sensation among the gossips in that bumble From what I learn the lady is worthy the good fortune which has so unexpectedly fallen to her lot.— London Currespondent.

The Indiana. Farmer of March 25 says: “ The old question about wheat, turning to chess is being discussed again in some quarters. There are just two well-ascer-tained facts which ought to forever settle that other fact, viz. that wheat don't turn to chess. 1. Chess is ajotally distinct plant from wheat. 2. Chess seed retains power of germination for a great many years in the soil, just as the seed of some weeds arc known to do. The conclusion therefore is that when wheat is winter-killed the conditions for the germination of the chess seed, deposited perhaps years before, are just then met. Alter meadow lands which had been free for years are broken, the sun and temperature cause the germination of weed seeds which had kin in the soil, retaining power of growth, perhaps for years, and now the land appears full of weeds. These Tacts ought to put an end to the belief that wheat turns to chess.” Someone says that a strong decoction of sage tea, or a salve made of sage tea and lard, and well rubbed on, will cure gargetj Of caked uddw, in cows. We have a remedy for this ailment, well experimented with and successfully, wnich I will give. Give the cow one, two or three doses of raw poke-root, cut fine, and if she refuses to eat it alone we mix It with out feed or any kind of slop that she will eat. Don’t be afraid to use poke-root, for it is harmless, and a cow will eat just enough of it and no more than she needs. Thia Is a sure cure.— Cor. Inier-Oeean.