Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

An English writer estimates that there are 40,000 Americans in|Englanfl to-day*. . *“ : The Brighton Bailroad tragedy has made revolvers sell like hot cakes in London. ‘" * The grand stand at Epsom, which dates from 1828, pays its shareholders forty per cent. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Tennyson are said to have disputed over the size of their heads, and had them measured. Mr. Tennyson’s proved the wider, the other the nigher. The prophetic Vennor is 40. His father was a hardware merchant, with a house in Liverpool and another In Montreal. The prophet was educated at the MeGO] Uni remty of Montreal. No one of Queen Vietoria’a daughters has ever mixed in general society so much as the Princess Louise this season. . She drives out with the frequency of a regular diner out, presumably for her health’s sake. - The Bev. Henry Knight, of Clifton, Kan., knocked down a man who expressed a hope that the President would not recover. An eye-witness estimated the weight of the blow at 13,000 pounds. A church tribunal will determine the gravity of the offence.

The last State ball in London terminated In a gallop “entirely in honor of the Atriericans present, vs no had expressed their longing For something more lively.” It is thought that the fashion thus set will be followed at private balls daring- the rest of the season. • f The Servian Government is reported •to be contemplating modifications in the national cpnstitution that will fully emancipate the Jewish residents of the country, and will place f them in the enjoyment of all the rights, civil and political, that are enjoyed be Servians of the Christian faith. * Ingenious little Billy Hyland constructed a jack-in-the-box, with a figure of unexampled hideousness, with which to amuse his mother,' in&Sacramento. He sprung in on her when she did not expect anything of the kind, and the shock threw her into convulsions, during which she died. ,

A man wagered that be could crawl through a drain 500 feet long at Steubenville, O. He went in through an aperture scarcely larger than his t>ody, and the spectators waited an hour for him to emerge at the other end. JBut he got stuck in the centre, and had to be dug out. The job lasted all day,and when rescued he was almost dead. The people of Wilcox,Pa., were greatly alarmed and angered by the news that a torpedo of nitroglycerine was to be exploded in their town by oil well borers, and they determined to avert the danger if possible. They discovered a tin colinuer in an office, and a brave volunteer carried it to a safe diMunce. where it was buried deep. It was a oase containing a surveyor’s drawings. The Grand Duke Nicholas.late Com-mander-in-chief of the Bussian armies in Turkey, Is living in Paris. He occupies rooms on the third floor of the Hotel Chatham, and is living in a very retired manner. He is suffering from nervous derangement, and says that the recent campaign in Turkey left his health in a very unsatisfactory condition. i At a concert recently given in London by Sir Julius Benedict, Bernhardt gave a reading.’Her flowercovered hat and costume seemed tojere ate agrater surprise aud pleasure than her declamation. Henry N lrving, who wore no flowers in his hat, seemed to please moreby]his declamation aud won immense applause by apathetic recitation of"My Unde,’’’accompanied on the piano by Sir Julius.

A woman who exhorts among the negroes of southern Georgia wears on her head a halo made of burnished brass, which seems to impress some of her hearers profoundly. She tells them that it was given to her by an angel in a vision, as a reward fpr her superlative piety, and is positively the only one ever conferred upon anybody before reaching heaven.. She claims that its possession enables her to intercede with certainty for sinners, and gives her miracutous power over disease. At the London Zoological Gardens there is an elephant which eats buns out of your nat. Loud Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, who had heard,bf this, bought a bun, placed it in his hat, and gracefully presented the dish to the elephant. Unluckily this happened to the the wrong elephant, aud one whose education had been neglected, for hC took hat and bun together, handed them into, his capacious mouth, and munched them Contentedly, amid the inextinguishable laughter of the on ipokevs. | .