Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

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' ■Uountess'.fe Piorrefotfff* Is by which- the, ex-Empress Rqgeuie . wishes to bodesignated. J i .■■■■■?? The best photograph of the late Gfotti', Garfield is a three-quarter Jepgthtakgu by Brady of Washington. . f T,< A new law. ih Kansas TnrlVfdS‘’“atjy** person to marry within six ramuhan after procuring a divorce, j • A ydung mau rushed eagerly for a'** front seat In an Albany thoator gallery," fell over the Tall, and was killed by the fall. The bride and bridegroom of a wedL_ ing at Latrobe, Pa., were run over and'" killed on their way frond church to the 7 railway station. j 41 V “lam getting just what I deserve, was the last remark of Richard Jennings, a Nevada murderer, before being ' j Ranged by a mob. The Duke of Wellington is President 6t the British Goat Society, and actively promotes goat keeping among the peasantry on his estates. ' *, It said that three members of Clay Snell’s family, at Edgerton, Mol,Rave died of shame and grief since he was Rahged for murder a year ago. A physiclah at Douds, lowa, trusted to bis sense of taste in compounding a medicine, and swallowed a fatal dose of gelsemium, mistaking it for co«oa. At Zwlcken, 3axony, spectacles have cured a very abort-sigh ted mare of sbyihg. How many poor animals have been beaten on occouut of a natural defect in the eyes! Mr. Sala says that a blind man could, with good nose make a shrewd guess at at the value of Russian notes. A 100 rouble noteuJilberedQienf. of a fashion , able perfume, and so on downward. Some years ago Miss Liable Mlnkler of Rochelle, 111., lost ‘ both arms by falling/in front of a reaper. To-day she is earning a good living by oilpainting, holding the brush in her teeth.' The Duke of Marlborough, the sale of whose valuable and really priceless library Is making such a stir lh the bibliogical world, lias at this moment more than 6,000 acres thrown on his hands. Ballot boxes In which each ballot Was passed around a glass cylinder by means of a crank, which also rang a bell and recprtled the vote, were used in tbe recent Boston municipal" election/ M-alwd Morley was compelled to attempt her usual daily feat of walking a tihgt rope tothepole of a circus tent at Athens, Texas, though she declared she was dizzy from illness. She fell and was killed. F A watchmaker opened a shop at Lehigh, lowa, and repaired watches at such astonishingly cheap rates that over a hundred were soon on his bench. Then he packed them up in a trunk and travelled on. iln a kino room In Louisville one particular 1 card won for its holder several nights in succession,and the negro [flayers regarded It superatitlously as endowed with luck, fti a fight for Its possession one contestant was killed. The friends of a (poor man at Stillwater,' Minn.,'gratuitously dug a grave jI or Ills dead child, but the sexton Refused to permit the funeral procession to enter the cemetery, on the ground that he tiftd been cheated oltc ot the Job. l ' A Chicago druggist sold to a freckled girl a lotion which he wurrante l would i remove the blemishes from her face. And so It did, but it also burned away the skin, leaving scars that peroia-; ' pently disfigure her. She is suing for! $2 r l,ooo damages. s 4\ Pensy lvoinia lias a law requiring that bequests for reiigous purposes must be made, so bp valid, not less than tiprtv days before dpqth. A Philadelphia court ’ has decided that a provision in a tvff to ■ fit a young man for the mintstry -Is, under this act, Invalid. A writer In the Lancet sirongly advocates, open carriages for doctor?: “An open veblole enables the doctor to purify himself, even to his hair, after quitting each sick room, thus insuring safety not only to patients, but also to the members of his family.” ' ,4 1 New fashions for ladles were set in ,1! the last century by. dressing dolls in' the prevailing mode and distributing them over Europe. The custom is believed to date from Venice, wbefle the Government rigorously regulated drpss by meajns of a doll set up as a pattern. The silk trade of Lyons now occapiesisome 1,200 looms, of which only 80,000 are within the city. Including those who work in the silkworm establishments there are 800,000 persons employed in the Lyons silk trsde. In 1787 there were but 80,000 and 18,000 looms. . The Rev. Dr. Thomas, the Chicago expelled Methodist, has formed ,a people’s church, and|isipreaching to twice as many Deople as before, for twice as much salary. The only ereed the hew organization holds Is the Ten Commandments aud ithe .‘teachings of, Christ. ~i ---'F. ' ■*'

A draft of a bill - to f be submitted ti Congress is being circulated throughoyt Louisiana for signatures. It provides for the oonslruction of a canai or outlet from the Mississippi river, ten . miles below New Orleans, to, Lake Borgue, the canal to be half a mile wide. There is a superstition among Penn*, sly vania coal miners that if any person whistles In a mine some disaster Is, sure to follow. The theory te that whistling drives away the good luck spirit, leaving -the miners to the mercy of * evil. A whistler was lately mobbed iu a Lackwanna mine.' There is au extraordinary supply Wf* game in London this year, and. price* are very low A reason given is.that country gentleman are now looking to their game as a source of profit, and thus every one has an interest ip helping to preserve it. [ -

In the new city of Pullman, near j Chicago, a handaotne-looking' roolei, who for more tban ' tnree months has. done Work on tne highest* buildings with as much skill as the best work-, man, has Just been discovered tea. I young woman in disguise. •* The Rev. T- E. Aldrich, a pastor at; v I Middletown, Conn., has been arrested I for beating his J#ife. He Ilia been a f successful temperance, worker, but, it is charged, usually got, drunk af.ef every sermon, and' stripped his wife when he got home. , ,