Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1879 — A Little Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Little Mistake.

A Queer story, one which the Ital-* ians have characterized as being “well/ founded,” if not true, reaches us from St. Petersburg. Lady Dufferin weut to court to be presented to the Czarina. On arriving at the Winter Palace she was shown into an ante-room, as she'' thought, where an aged lady, whom she took to be a mistress of ceremonies, was seated on an ottoman. The lady motioned her to a place beside her, ana entered into conversation, but in a frigid Russian style. The handsome Irishwoman with the Hamilton blood in her veins has a little pride of her own, and thinking the'Muscovite wait-ing-woman was rather patronizing to the wife of an Embassaaor, assumed a “stand-off” air on her side. The ceremonious dame became more ceremonious and almost haughty.. At Jength she raked: “Have you seen my daughter, lately?” “Pardon me, madame,” said Lady Dufferin, “ I fancy we do not move-in the same circle. Pray, who may your daughter be?” > The answer led up to a tableau. “The Duchess of Edinburg,” said the stately old female, who was no other than the Empress of Russia herself.— Paris Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph.

—A Martinique journal avers that an anchor belonging to one of Columbus’ vessels has been found six feet below ground «4n Venezuela, three hundred and seventy-two feet from the coast line. It is of simple form and rude manufacture, the stock being round and eight feet long, with a ring a foot in diameter at one end, and with flukes five feet in length. The weight is eleven hundred pounds. Columbus had, on the 4th of August, 1498, three vessels at anchor off the southwestern extremity of the island of Trinidad, in the natrow strait separating it from Venezuela, and his son Ferdinand relates that a great waveSbuddenly disturbed them and caused such a strain upon the cable that one of them parted. The anchor to which this cable was attached is the one recently dug up. The land in that part of Venezuela has gained so mucn upon the water since that period that gardens are now planted where ships once sailed. —She laid her pretty hand upon her husband’s shoulder. “Henry, love, there’s something the matter with the clock; will you see to it?” . So ho took off his coat, removed the face and fingers, examined the interior parts with a large magnifying glass, blew into them with the bellows, oiled them thoroughly, and did all that mortal ingenuity could devise. But it was of no avail, and so, despairing, at a late hour of the night he went to bed and slept the sleep of the righteous. Next morning at breakfast quoth she, “ Harry, dear, I know what was the matter with the “WellF’ “It only wanted winding.” —Here’s a chance for some of you boys who want to get married: An economic North Wheeling girl has knocked the bottom out of an empty cheese box, and now wears it as a fashionable belt. —Wheeling Bunday Leader.