Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1881 — In Private, Enemies; In Public, Friends. Now York Sun. [ARTICLE]

In Private, Enemies; In Public, Friends. Now York Sun.

Modern civilization has decreed that no quarrel shall hold good during the progress of a dinner, ball or any social entertainment whatever, and people who are not on speaking terms are expected to hold sweet ana amiable converse when the accidents of society throw them together under the roof of a mutual friend. At a large dinner party lately given in this city a gentleman was requested to take in a lady between whose family and his own a quarrel and lawsuit had been pending for several years. The gentleman complied with a bow and a smile, and conversation between him and the lady seemed to be more than usually brisk and lively during the sixteen courses that go to make up a fashionable dinner. At the close of the evening the host, who had been enlightened in the meantime as to the existing relations between his guests, apologized to the gentleman for the blunder he had made. “It is of no sort of-consequence, my dear fellow,” was the reply; “I have taken that lady in to dinner five times this winter, and we pass each other the next day without even a bow of recognition. In all probability the breach will never be healed, but we shall continue to amuse each other ah dinner parties as long as oar friends persist in seating us side by side.”

Senator Hamlin has acknowledged himself conquered by the strong hands of time and winter ; he has appeared in the senate wearing an overcoat for the first time in his life. He baa been extremely positive in pronouncing overcoats superfluous, but a sharp attack of rheumatism has been a means of enlightenment.

Charles Radburn, of Bloomington, has been engaged by the Providence (B. 1.,) base ball club as change pitcher. * •