Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1880 — Carlyle and His Baby. [ARTICLE]

Carlyle and His Baby.

1 Thomas Oariyie is now a granduncle, and is immensely pleased and proud over his new honors. A private letter from Chelsea says: “Mr. Carlyle is so dazed with the novelty of a baby in the house—it is almost his sole experience of such torments and wonders—that he sends for the inftrnt whenever anybody calls, and remarks upon the perfection of the finger-nails and the little toe-nails and all the rest of the wee body. He turns it up and down, and over, and explains the mysterious and wonderful anatomy—in short, acts like a child over the first baby it has ever seen. The new element in his life seems to give him a new lease of existence.” . %' Booth Winter had been ill for months at Detroit, and the misfortune had reduced his family to poverty. He was not hopeful of 'recovery, and regarded himself as a burden on his wife. Resolving upon suicide, he gashed his throat with a knife. His wife disarmed him, and held the wound with her hand, so that-he eould not (deed to death.’ He begged her to let him die, using every argument he couldthink of, and struggling to free himself. The resolute woman conquered, but only temporarily, for he died the next day. Miss Flora Sharon, the daughter of tne Nevada bonanza senator, is engaged, it is said, to marry an Englishman of title. Dean Stanley nrnrnea professor ana Mrs. Tyndal according to the usual forms. The Canada Presbyterian thinks the Dean was not equal to his opportunities, and that if he had been he would have asked the groom: “Do you take this anthropoid to be your co-ordinate, to love with your nervecentres, to cherish with vour whole cellular tissue, until a final molecular disturbance shall resolve its organism into its primitive atoms?”