Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

An English woman has lately been apppointed a church warden. *• Minnie Palmer, the actress, is under $5,000 bonds to her manager not to marry for five years. > The audience which gathered in Rochester to hear Talmage lecture was so small that he refused to appear. ’ It is asserted that the German Government is anxiously endeavoring to devise measures to arrest the enormous flow of emigrants.. San Francisco still rejoioes over its one pound and a half baby, and mothers and physicians seem equally pleased and astonished. The child is well formed and in good

The subecriptian to the Hungarian conversion loan is the greatest financial success ever achieved by AustroHungary. Twenty-five times tho required amount was offered. The original of Mr. Millais’s two exhibition pictures this year “Cinderella” and “Sweetest Eyes Ever Been,” is Miss Buckstoue, the clever and pretty daughter of the London manager. According to Herr Fuchs’s annual report on the subject of volcanic eruptions, the activity of volcanoes in 18S0 was rather small;.the only remarkable eruption, was that of Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii on Nov. 5, * f The Baltimore boy who wanted l to please his mother ahd therefore stk>le : money from his father to give her as his own earnings, has been sent to the Reform School. It looks as though another great railway manager had been spoiled. v j. There are many prehistoric ruins In Arizona. A writer in the Tucson Citizen says that six miles north of Camp Lowell, at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains, there are the remains of an ancient town covering an area of about 60 acres. It is said that the wife of an English officer has, written to tell him that, having embraced Buddhism, she, in right of her new faith, divorces him. It is feared that her change of faith will be extensively followed if it be found to carry with it such privileges, Mexico is becoming the favorite field for missionary enterprise. The Methodist Church South appropriates $82,500 this year, and other denominations are showing increased energy in that direction. Mexico,will at thk rate, soon outrank China and Africa in missionary estimation. A swarm of bees lately made their appearance in the Strand, one of the most crowded thoroughfares of London and settled on the Army and Navy Gazette office. A gentleman belongiug to the field hived them successfully. Had this occurred in days of old the Delphic oracle would have been in request. Puhch records the following conversation: “How uncommonly well the Tories have treated Bradlaugh.” “What treated him well! Why, they don’t allow him to enter the House.” “Exactly. They SD&re him all the boredom of debates,but let him go Into the smoking anil dining rooms, where all the fun is.” The Whittaker wilt forgery, by means of which a Philadelphian’s millions was all but secured by the criminals, is being fully described in their trial By one of their number. Seven persons were concerned in the Slot, and the actual forging was done yan expert penman, who was hired for the purpose, while the body of the document, comptising thirteen pages of foolscap, was written by a lawyer. A San Francisco undertaker made a contract to bury the city’s pauper dead forsixty cents each. As that price would not begin ‘to cover the cost of the regulation coffin and digging 6t a grave, much curiosity arose as to the expected source of profit. ‘ The matter is now clear. He advertises for relatives or friends of every pauper who dies, and keeps the remains as long as possible for recognition. ,In half the cases somebody comes forward to pay well for a burial elsewhere than iu the Potter’s Field. George Gottung of Ban Francisco had a youug wife, who liked to go to balls and picnics, while he preferred to remain quietly at home. He resolved to reform her by punishment. He began by boxing her ears, next kicked her, and at the third offence gave her a sound thrashing. Still she was not obedient. As soon as the black marks' were gone from her lace she went, to & garden party. George thought thatn little stabbing, not deep enough to kill, might have the desired effect. Ho followed her with a sharp knife iu his band, and prodded her several times in the manner intended, but finally struck a deeper blow, and she died on the spot. His defence is that the homicide was accidental. *