Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — Professor Thomson’s Silver Wedding. [ARTICLE]

Professor Thomson’s Silver Wedding.

Professor J. S. Thomson and wife celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on Tuesday evening. The affair was conducted in such a quiet and unostentatious style that the event was scarcely known outside the Noble block. A Dispatch reporter, furious at the clandestine manner in which the wedding had been celebrated, called upon the Professor yesterday for satisfaction, resolved to take it out in interviewing. “Silver wedding! Oh! ah! yes! 1 believe there was something of the kind,” said the Professor, reflectively. “Presents, do you ask? Yes, sir, they were just tremendous. But the chances are we should not have had so many if we had not had the forethought to issue invitations one hundred and two days beforehand, so as to give our friends plenty of time to brush up old silverware, and take a good look around for something cheap. All right, I am getting on to the character of the presents. Give me time. Let me see, suppose you say there were a number of silver sets that looked as if they had been setting a very long time., Tea sets, coflee sets, -cider sets, wine sets, plated washstands, gilded fire shove! and tongs, a solid gold coal scuttle, presumed to have been sent by Vic-toria—nickel-plated dressing grown sent by Tilden. A railroad by Vanderbilt, a peck of assorted salt spoons by * numerous friends,’ and in fact everything which a family needs, all duplicated so many times that I think of starting a five-cent store to get the truck off my hands.” There was something in the Professor’s eye and tone that warned the reporter to forbear. “You dislike presents, Professor?” “ I detest the practice, sir, and there is the reason of our quiet celebration.— Erie ( Pa .) Dispatch. —The powers of a horse’s memory were illustrated at Rochester, N. Y., recently, where the driver of a hook and ladder truck tried an experiment. Three and a half years ago the city sold a team of horses that haa been used for drawing the truck, and since then they hail been employed in different work. One day recently the driver took the horses into the truck-house and turned them loose, whereupon each went directly to his own stall and, when a gong was sounded, they ran out and took their accustomed positions &t the tongue of the machine.