Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1881 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

It is estimated that the recent terrible storms cost the Yarmouth,England fishers $50,000 in nets alone. The Pope is now enjoying his one yearly sport, bird catching, in the Vatican Gardeu. Half the catch is sent to the hospitals. The fashion in men’s hats changes far more often in England, France, and America than in other countries. The sombrero worn in Don Quixote’s time is in fashion in Spain to-day. Dr. McCoeh is reported by a religious paper to have said that he finds at Princeton a constantly decreasing number of uudergaduates intending to be clergymen, and that it is the same in the other colleges. The Rev. Dr. Thomas of Chicago says of his expulsion from the Methodist denomination for heresy: ‘‘The Hebrew language has the phrase ‘Batots,’ which translated means ‘in the out’ That’s where I am.” Three Philadelphia g.rls, ranging from 11 to 13 years of age, agreed to test the pleasures of getting drunk. They bought a bottle of whiskey and drank it. A policeman soon afterward found them lying insensible in the street. *• Joseph Campbell, at BlufftoD, Indiana, and Louisa Kelsey, at Celina, Ohio, were married by telegraph, there being a minister and a wedding party at each end of the wire. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell expect to meet some lime next winter. A woman at Marietta, 0.,0n reading of sofiiebody having committed suicide by means of a towel, remarked that she couldn’t understand how it could be done; but an hour afterward she was found choked to death in the same manner. Philadelphia has already prepared a programme for the celebration, a year henoe, of the 200th anniversary of the landing of William Penn. There will be three days of processions, naval displays, historical tableaux, fire works, feasts, and speeches.

The Ontario Commercial Traveler says that drummers have now a craze for wearing scull cape, and they often, when staying at hotels, don a real woolen nightcap, such as their grandfathers slept in, on arrival and wear it throughout the evening. When William J. Handy, of Somerset county, Md.. lost his slaves by the war, he declared that he would never employ hired labor. His farm became a wilderness, and it was a straggle to reach his house. Last week he was sent to an insane asylum. gLittle Lacy Hagbes of Boston was weakened and wasted by disease, so that her father found it easy to pick her ap slid throw her across the room, against the wall. There was enough conclusion, however, to hasten her death, if it did not actually kill her. The English “Wreck Register and Chart,” lately published, shows that in them were no fewer than 2,518

wrecks on the British coasts. By various agencies '2,923 lives were saved from these wrecks; 231- were lost. It is clearly shown that the percentage of wreck "increased with the age „of the .ships. A party of mulatto girls appear at one Chicago variety theatre as “Yankabacke Geisha dancers, direct from the tea gardens of Tokto,” and at another establishment the fsame evening as “genuine Comanche maidens,” t jieir natural color answering both purposes, though their features do not. Atlanta is the defendant in a lawsuit for $20,000 damages, because the police, on the order of the Superintendent, haVe excluded negro* s from a public park. The plaintiff has been repeatedly arrested and locked up over night for ihslsting en entering the park, and the lawyers say that his case is a good, on.e , . . . • A few weeks ago a large box attracted the attention of the traffic superintendent at the Birsuls station of the Odessa section of the Southwest railway. 'it-had been sent of from Pultawa and was addressed to Odessa. It was opened, and inside was discovered the body of an aged Jew. Under the corpse was foftnd a note, on which was written in the Little Russian language, 1 If you Jews will not quit the country liviDg, we shall send you out dead.”'

John E. Miller of Boston wad a drunkard and a wife beater, yet he was so sensitive to criticism that, on being upbraided by her for his bad conduct, he committed suicide in her presence. Richard Kirk of Mobile, shocked his affianced, wife m a similar manner. When she intimated that their engagement must be, broken, and refused to see him except in the presence of a witness, he blew his brains out, and she went into convulsions at the sight. Advices from Cairo, Egypt, and nounce the death of Gen. Erastus 8. Purdy. He was a native of the city of New York, and at the age of sixteen went to California. When the war broke out Rejoined the first California regiment. For his meritorious and gallant services in_the army of the Potomac he was promoted step by step until he became chief officer of Gen. Franklin’s staff, and he served on the staff of General McDowell until the close of the war. He was appointed a topographical engineer in the Egyptian army in 1870 and was immediately set to work in the desert. H? was appointed a Pacha He did excellent exploring work in Nubia, Abytinia, Darfur, and-.the Soudan, and bis arduous labors had worn down his physical strength. His death occurred at the early -age of forty-two. If a woman tells you, “PH never speak to you again in my ii/e —there!* rejoice and return; but, i bile says, “I shall always be glad to see you at any time,” travel! When a woman loves you, she will p \rdon all —even your crimes, but whf n she no longer loves you she will not even forgive your virtues. _ Efrer tolerates; truth condemns, ‘