Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

There lias been set up the Grand Opera House at Paris a number of mirrors, measuring forty-five by fllty two feet, and weighing from 1,200 to 1,000 pounds. At Gofso. in Crete, Prof. Stilman has excavated the remains of what he IxdievCs to be the historical labyrinth famous from tile story of Thesus and Minotaur. The town of Peabody, Mass., boasts the possession of two children named Lynch having pink eyes and white hair, and being ablo to see better at night than iu the daytime. Pulaski’s banner, commemorated in one of Longfellow's poem 3, is carefully fireserved in the rooms of the Mary* and Historical Society. It is a silk guidon, fringed, and meant to be borne upon a lance.

A remark by Revivalist Harrison, in a San Francisco meeting: “Sometimes I tbink I shall not die. But when my time comes angels will come and place me under tbeir wings and bear n<e gently away.” More than 3,000 women are employed In the railway offices of Austria. Their pay is from sls to S2O a month. The majority of them are the widows, or daughters of defunct or active male employes on the road. The inscription orrthe stone placed over tbe late Prof. Clifford’s grave (his widow writes to a London Daper)reads as follows: “I was not and was conceived. I loved and did a little work. I am not and grieve not.”

Snow, ice, and a thermometer registering in some places 10° below freezing point, Lave been the very unusual features of October weather on the Pacific coast. In Washington Territory fruit has frozen on the trees. Referring to the Princess Louise’s continued illness,. the London Globe says: “It h*s become known that some fragments of broken glass remained in her ear until removed by the English surgeons on her reaching London.”

Mrs. Fry, on eloping from Unionville, Ohio, left a note kindly advising her husband to get a divorce immediately; and marry a certain frugal and industrious widow of the neighborhood who would, as she expressed it, “be good to the seven small Fry.” Our wholesale grocers here have not yet realized the high prices asked in Greece for this year’s crop of currants. It is said that France does not buy much, because it will not pay to manufacture cheap claret for the United States market out of currants at their present high price. Joshua Mully, of Baltimore, who was sentensed five years ago, in Delaware county, Penn., to ten years’ imprisonment and SI,OOO fine for alleged burglary, has just been released from firison —pardoned they call it, it havng been clearly shown that he was innocent of the crime. Recently published statistics of suicides in France show for the last thirty years the extraordinary increase pf 78 per cent. From 1861 to 1825 the annual|average was 3’639, or one suicide

for 9.833 inhabitants, while in the latest returns the annual number is 6,406, or one smeide for 5,161 inhabitants. A company of Davenpert. lowa,sent au agent to invest its $30,000 capital in Lead vilie mines. He put all the money into seven ventures that yielded both-* ing, while three ethers that turned out well proved to have been made on his own private account. The company I has voted a lack of confidence in him.

The English papers accord to America the praise of turning grave subjects into a grim humor. One of these says: “A cute Yankee advertiser has been utilizing the walls of cemeteries by adorning them with the following legend in 'gigantic letters: ‘Use Jones’ bottled ale' if you would keep out of here.’ ”

During the trial of a burglar in Ban Francisco one of the jurors, whose opinion of his own sagacity seems to have been very considerable, took the liberty of going to the scene of the alleged offence to examiue tbe premises on his own acccount. This, it is thought, will cause the vercict to be set aside and a new trial be ordered.

The Las Vegas Optic says that the body of Billy the Kid was removed five days after his death,from the cemetery near Fort Sumner, where it had been buried,and was taken to the office of a physician in Las Vegas. There the head was takeu off.-ond the skull cleaned and polished, and the rest of the body was then reburied to prevent suspicion and discovery. Thfr precarious tenure of the mushroom tow ns that spring up in mining regions during times of excitement is exemplified in the history of Hamilton, Nevada. Duriug the White Pine excitement in 1868 it had a population of thousands, two large daily newspapers, and all appearances of substantial prosperity. To-day it barely counts a population of sixty.

Harrison is|a revivalist,known as“the boy preacher,” and is working with ucctss in San Francisco. The Virgina City Chronicle says he has a striking way of “jumping down from the pulpit and placing his foot on the altar rail, as if about to spring over on the obdurate sinners in the congregation;” and “he paces the pulpit like a caged lion,” and “raises his voice to a scream and then drops it to w’hisper.” They were walking down Austin Avenue and talked about the camp* meeting. “I tells you 1 neber seed de like. Dar was seix u sisters what got ligeon last night all at W’unst. Dey was lyin’ down in de dust, a rollin’ around and a kickin’ like de berry debil was in ’em.” “Did sister Malviney White get ligeon too?” “She was dar aud displayed some ligeous feelin’, but she didn’t kick around in de dust Jike de rest. She had a new silk dress on, sue did, an’ she didn’t want to spile it.”