Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1881 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

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The fox-bun ting expenditure of Ire, laacLis jwokflgcd as amoanting in the ■aggregate to abeUl *2,500,000 a year. TOis Mr. Parncit has stepped, so tar as beoan. t Ail that a‘Chicago woman has to do to get a divorce is to swear to the discovery after marriage that her husband is a St. Louts man, and the courts give It to her atonee. Robert Bloskie, who has just died in Wabash, Ind., had for nine years lived chiefly on deg meat, winch he declared to be wholesome and palatable. His' 1 family relish the samefood, and propose to continue Its use. The amount of game reaching-Paris during the first fortnight of the season has during the last throe years averaged 123,350 heal- The value of consumed there each season W?estimated as not let* than $16,000,000. The energy of the analysts in Paris seems impotent to stay adulteration. Of samples analysed last June the numbers were as follows: Wine,'3lß in 455; elder 16 in 22; milk and cream, 120 in 180; batter, 10 in 19; spices 48 in 54. The current crop in Greece this year is one of the best ever known, both in quantity and quality. The entire crop is about 120,909 tons. About 46,000 tons have been already shipped to Great Britain, the Continent, and ■ America.

The trial of Julias Hoeb'el proceeded with great smoothness and oelertty at Evansville, fnd., until the clerk sold: -“Prisoner, stand up and hear the verdict.” Then it was found there was no prisoner, for he had quietly flipped out an hour before. The Boston and Maine Railroad Company allows each station agent $lO a year with which to buy flower seeds, plants, and trees for ornamenting the grounds about bis station house, and qflers prizes to the agents who make their places most attractive. The London Tablet (Roman Catholic) says that among the town population in Ireland there is bitter complaint shat by the Land League movement everything has been done for the tanners and nothing for them. The tradesmen find their occupation gone. A single vineyard near Dixon, Solano county, Cal., has just yielded 250,000 boxes of rahins, worth $500,000. Vine planting is increasing greatly throughout the State, 2,000 acres of new vines being about to be set in the neighborhood of Cloverdale alone. . ’ Amative war is threatened in Taran&ke, New Zealand, the scene of the severe fighting in 18G2. A body of 600 'Maoris have seized upon Government land, and while they are planting aad fencing the armed constalulary are endeavoring to cheek the trespass by pulling down the fences and tramping over the sown fields. Real ducks are still fought in the South, out nothy the more pretentlous upholders of the code. Jack Patrick and Frank Comer, bummers, of Columbus, Ga., had an encounter, by appoiuUqent, with knives, the weapons being agreedon by both. The struggle was desperate and Moody, thirteen stabs being divided between them, Comer died on the spot, and Patriok is sull in a precarious condition. While rector of St. James Episcopal Cbureb, Philadelpdia, the Rev. Marchs! T- Meigs stole from the church fund and from a widow’s estate, and ft natty absconded with e month’s salary itt’ advance. He new writes back to bis friends that be evidefatly mistook hks fitness for the ministry, end has gone into profitable mercantile employ meat aoroad, whence he will soon send money to pay all claims.