Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

! Out of IOT Derbys, a Prince of 'VVatek hmsvroa oaoa, tn ITSONJFgoyaI duke, ten times; lords, twenty-two umeatA foreign ooont once, J 865; ft totpba baron twice, IfHMUKI 1879; prince In 18T5, «nd ah Aaioiicair sovereign in 18Sli Other winners have, been English commoner* Prince indisposition 4s. a, dangerous one "TSf"*!* fleial labors with all hto sccgßoKte Chanzy, whom he had to receive at the same time, while lying on his sofa, is ■aid to have terribly fatigued him*, go A pretender to the Russian has been giving the police in the rural, districts of the Empire much tfofaoie.' He represents himself to be NUCuhUAlex»ndrowitch, jrho was ceporteddol have died at Stf Petemhnit; has, under that name,-t»*fc ItlrffiULnp the peasantry. The npltoe, uMßgn pursuing him oetenstbly frith ‘MfIMH vigdf. have not yet laid hands, vapam him. ; fgV I !«, w(h) -

Robertson Smith, whose seesnto work on the Old Testament hssaxr cited so much ire on the p4rt of orthodox Scotch Presbyterians, has aocdpTba an offer from the Messrs. Black,* publishers, of Edinburgh, to join.Ure* staff of the “Encylopsedia Britan fiky.Jl It is understood that lhs engagement will not interfere with Prof. Smith giving continued attention to bisspecial line of biblical and philological studies. tul The rules of the Methodist Episoopsl Church stipulate that the profits of the Book Concern, which are heavy, shall not be appropriated to any other ffur-fi pose tban“for the benefit of the traveling, worn-out preachers,their wives,widows and children." The disbursement of the money under this rule haa been iiw the hands of the Bishops. The next annual conferences will act on a prop* oeitkrn to turn the profits ovel to the conferences, pro rata, for dfstribnnon, and to compel an annual dividend o#i all the profits not actually for, capitaL it .y Some of the late M. Litre’s friends and disciples resented' the idea of his being buried with religeofif 1 rites. Thus, before the cortege took it* departure from the house, Bn advanced and made a speech wnlch produced a melancholy impression on those present. “Meitre," he ei l; claimed, “I called myself your son aad you loved me. I remain your dlscjple and your defender, and I come in the name of positive philosophy to protest on bebair of universal masonry. They have deceived us, and have stolen you from thinking but we shgll, avenge you by by causing oiir children to read your books.” * >«. *

Here is a story for those little boya who have a mind to run away withthe circus. Leotard Carlo was made a performer in the ring when he was only two years old, beginning as ii poslurant for riders, and afterward becoming expert on the trapeze. He wore the brightest of spangled cos-, tumes, smiled industriously while at work, aud altogether was an object ofehvy to juvenile spectators. A few days ago a pitiably ragged and wan lad of 12 was caught stealing a drink of milk from a can in a Boston street. Being arrested, he said that he was Leotard Carlo, that lameness had incapacitated him for gymnastic feats,* and that for months he had been a starving, shelterless tramp. . The statue of Lord Byron, which Lork Beaconsfield was one of the chief agents in promoting some four years ago, has just been completed. The statue has been erectei some little time, but only on a wooden basement. This basement has now been replaced by marble supplied by the Greek Government in recognition of the services the poet rendered. It would have been much better, by all accounts, to have kept the stones at home, for they are not worth the carriage, much less the cost of cutting. The material isa-kind of streaked dirty red and white mottled soap. There are millions of tons of infinitely handsomer marble on the hill sides in Connemara, and in far better blocks.