Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1881 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

A negro escaped from a chain gang near Macon, Ga , and ran so bard that he fell dead. A chimney 250 feet high Is to be built at La Balle, HL, to carry off the noxious fames of a soda ash factory. Catharine Mitchell of Boston gave her three children whiskey, and they were found lying insensible beside her. Their ages were 5,3, and 2 years. The City Connell of Vienna has appointed a man to shoot down the sparrows with an air gun at the rate of 40 .o 50 a day. This lb done because their twitter drowns the notes of the singing birds. A Kentucky girl of shifting affections said yes to two men, and allowed both to obtain marriage licenses. They met at her house on the appointed day, and she made a final choice between them*

Forbee’s {Tourists, Ac., gives the following capacity of churches: St Peter’s, 54,006 people;Bt. Paul’s 36,000; Notre Dame, 20,000; St. Stephen’s, Vienna, 12,4000 ;Bt. Mark’s Venice and Milan, 7,000. A trustee of the Lutheran church at Poestenkill, N. Y., carried off the communion vessels on withdrawing from membership, and used them on his own table. The pastor has sued for their recovery. An Englshman who has just pub lished his observations during a tour of this country concludes that the most striking and thonroughly American products he saw across were Bob Ingersoll and Maud S. Tuchmann A Co., of London have invented a fire extinguishing preparation which can be kept in powder or in solution. They claim that it is not only more speedy and effectual in action than water, but that nothing once sprinkled with it will ignite. It excites much attention.

A gang of tramps have taken possession of Laman Place, Pa., and are making it very unpleasant for the inhabitants. They have a regular camp and live well, stealing calves,pigs,fowls harnsand vegetables by the wholesale, and begging bread, salt and pepper, and butter from the farmers’ wives. They also milk the farmers’ cows. It is customary among fashionable people in London to publish births as well as marriages and deaths. Foqr Philadelphians will be likely to read the birth columns in the London newspapers closely hereafter. They have been bequeathed $50,000 each by the late Alfred D. Jessup; but these bequests are based on the remote contingency that his three daughters, two of Whom are married and one about to be, all die childless.

Mississippi county, Mo. Is the great watermelon region of the world. Over 4,000 acres arc this year devoted to watermelons alone, and the yield is about a car load an acre, so that 4,000 car loads will be shipped to St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Contracts have been made with many farms at sllO a’car. The general prices run from S6O to $l6O a car during the season. HBritish India supports a population of 243 persons to the square mile, against ISO in France and 200 in England. Whenever the population exceeds 200 to the square mile it ceases to be a rural, and has to live to a greater or less extent by manufactures, mininsr, or city industries. Keeping in view that ninety per cent, of the rural population of Indialivemore or less by the tillage of the soil, easy to understand that, owing to , the extreme density of population, the struggle for existence is extremely hard. Mrs. Nealus of Cincinnati went to a Fourth of Julv pic-nic without pertmission, and Mr. N., a dsciplinarian, was so much annoyed that he lit a fire under the floor where b«r bed stood. That night she and her children would haVe been suffocated had not the hot weather, by keeping neighbors awake, caused tne fire to he promptly discovered. As it Vras, Mr. Nealus’s action Involved the burning of four houses.

There is hardly any difference in the looks of the twin Bowsers of Janesville Wis., but one of them is a drunken loafer while the other is an exemplary Chris fifth. The loafer kissed a woman unbidden in the street, and her husband by mistake knocked the Christian down. Her very muscular brother, when the mistake was explained, went out with the avowed purpose of righting the matter by whipping the .real oftender tremenduously: but he met the Christian, refused to believe his protestations that a second blunder was being made, and thrashed him so that he almost died. “Julius, is you better dis morning?” “No; I was better yesterday, but Is’e got ober dat.” “Am dere no hope ob yourdiseobery?” “Discoberyof what?” “Your discobery from the convalescence what am fetching you on yourback.” “Dat depends, sah, altogeddah on de prognostication which implies de disease; should dey continue fatally, de doctor thinks Ise a gone coon; should dey not continue fatally, he hopes dis oullud Individual w r on’fc die dis time. But, as I said afore, dat all depends on de prognostics; aud till dese come to a head dere am no telling wedder dis pusson will come to a disconuatlon or odderwise.”

Mr. And Mrs. J. H. Stigers of Gallatin, Mo., were undecided as to where they should spend the Fourth. She wanted bita to have his way,he wanted her to* have hers. They decided to toss up a two-oent pieee and trust to luck. Their 2 year- -Id boy was on the floor, and when the coin fell grabbed if and straightway put it in his mouth and attempted to swallow it. It lodged far dowa in his throat, and for eleven days there It stayed. Mr. and Mrs. Stigers atayed air home on the Fourth. The baby could eat nothing and could hardly swallow. He was about to die, when a Bt. Louis physician fished the coin but and saved the little fellow’s life.