Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1881 — TABLE TAUK. [ARTICLE]

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An apafation for a law punishing stage robbers with death is going on in Missouri. A Richmond lad named Ruby, while amusing him-elf by firing pebbhs from a devil siing Wednesday, put out the only remaining eye of James Ladd, a poor imbecile colored man. An lowa dog has cost its owner $950 in dams gen fur bites, and the man tiedares that impecunious neighbors hang around on purpose to ba bitten, knowing that he settles the claims properly. Mamie Richards,a Wisconsin schoolmistress, is to have a medal because she walked daily to and from her school, through five miles of dense forest, in which were prowling wolves. A couple had taken their places before a clergyman to bo married, at Lowville, N. Y., when a quarrel arose about the handling of the ring, and the wedding was postponed indefinite-. iy. Last Sunday evening a portion of hanging rook, on the North Madison turnpike, weighing several tons, fell into the road below, tearing up the road considerably. The huge roek was broken into small pieces and spread upon the roadbed. r ‘

Mrs. O’Brien publishes a card, at Rock Island, 111., to say that Method - ism tea failure. She has been brought to the way of thinking by the conduct o' the Rev. Mr. Meredith, who converted her. She has humbly returned to the, Roman Catholic Church. , . 1 Hazing at Smith College, the Massachusetts Institution sot girls, is quite SWeec and gentle. The frew~obmers are seized, led Ihfo the main hall, presented with boquets, kissed affectionately, and then shown the pictures and statuary in the art gallery- r Nearly all the ladies about the iEug%! liah Court are well ou in years. Some of the maids of honor are deep in tha, forties. When they get Venerable tb«y : are turned into "women of the bedchamber,” who are eligible. fog that* office even when centenarians. j The inhabitants of the great mannfzcturlng oenlre Of Crefeld, Gennady, have begun the construction of a splendid new school of textile indueappertaining to the producUonof teatiles—a laborator, ~ work shop. ntuaeam. Jk*

- Tbe Pope has been living a very I tired life lately, edl(^ imsrMr*. was !*g«T

had donp, and commanded hereto bang ,to Wfci ;lf fctinfljdonftfce following da y- . A Whether Buffalo BUI ever had any perilous adventure* on- the plains or not, he had certainly' been endangered of la* e as a todSTlißHrorthe theatres. Sonde after to 1 ngfri with a tortahaWk hi Cbfohgo by one of the Indians Wbb figure in hisplay.be was fired upon three times in Council Bluffs by a lunatic. There seems to be a strain of murder iu tbe blood of the McDermotts of Jeffersonville, Ind • Jim McDermott killed a man in 1846 and was hanged. His son John stabbed his wi'e to death in a»d (hen committed afiicide. His grandson Edward wantonly took the lives oflwo druken companions In a barroom a few days ago. American t>eef is regknie^Vu' En glaod as of a superior quality/!** they think the mutton wo rend there is not to be compared In flavor or tenderness With that ojt home production. The reason for this :Is. that .our ..sheep are generally treated in a way to fever tbe consider at iop pf the quality oi the rautThe help already glvenfo:. the Michigan with the promise of‘mow, has saved tinny a farm to iis owner.* I-mmediatshMi (teethe fire, speculators hurried into,: the .burned overdlsttictwfehcasfhywrpeetKig to be ableto buy tr e land at drifUng prices, but the farmers,apeouraged by the promptr-ttssistancot have declined to oeR. •: it I 1 .TCAIWQH .1 X.

The memolfis 'of Coupt Kisseieff contains descript ion,pf an. imperial pleasOft T ia boner of (be. Grand DaheOfnstauttfte. 'Among-othevimosstneota after lunch, Marshals Pelissier and SKfnard While tfrg-EMfbe-or with a cigarette in ms mouth. 1870. ■ :f‘TT»T town, Mioa-i wrote to a gtrt* that be wotrtd* not was a a‘ eTfAhger, he lDMuf by choosing the tree which gmw near the win'i iltoman waeWn ■Wjftt4'M g: niksloin and virtue requirea toH*jh dhauKh w cun ea ily