Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

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estates in Russia is eetimatedlrt^OOO,A Boston clothing firm gives away with each garment sold a book of ou£ Rnedra wings, and offers prize* for the artistic coloring of the pltturbs. Frank Corroll proudly wears a me£al, in Philadelphia, because he picked up 100 rats and threw them in a banal in 28 seconds. Frank is a bull terrier. *■ A Catekill Coroner’s jury decided that a woman “came to her death in the providence of God by the accidental inhalation of chloro'form and heart disease.” The Rev. Mr. Green, is to be tried by a church tribunal in St. Joseph, Mo., on a charge of lotting a young woman sit ir. his lap while teaching her a Sunday school lesson. By a vote of she Baptist deacons, at Mendocia, Ind., a figure of Venus, which had been embr< idered on a screen by the pastor’s daughter, was declared unfit to bo sold at the church fair. The bootblacks, of London are divided into societies. One of them is the Saffron Hill, numbering sixty-six members, has earned in the list twelve months between £3,000 and £4,000 The youngest of the revivalists are Ben and Lotta Joyce, who exhort and sing with geat skill, and are meeting with wonderful success iu southern Missouri. They are twins, aged 14, A Virginia father has eleven, ctiildreninamed in the consecutive Latin numerals from “Primus” to “Updecimus;” at the birth of his tenth boy the latter was named “Decimus Ultimtia,” or tenth and last but, somehow, another son followed, and was dubbed “Undeeimus.” One cake was especially made for the noisy serenSders who were expected to disturb a wedding at Barnhill, Ohio, but the drug which was to have been put into it exclusively was by accident distributed through all the dough. All the guests were made ill, and the mar* riage was postponed. A Memphis thief dared not fight a watch dog, and allowed the brute to keep him a prisoner for hours on the roof of a shed. When the , barking brought the owner of the premises, a gun, the fellow picked up courage to face both dog and weapon, in a furious attempt to escape. He lost his life. The St. Louis Post-Despatch reports that railway trains hurry thrpugh Newark, N, J., without stopping. Though nobody there has yet robbed a train, there is uo telling what the bank cashiers and city officials will turn their hands to in order to make money when the banks are all. broken and tue city funds gone. The Rev. O. P. Gifford of Boston j is an enthusiastic rider on the bicycle. He says that “the centaur of future art and poetry will be a man on a wheel.” He “spins” on his “steely steed past foot and horse ” to use his own words, until “the red blood rushes to the finger tips, the nerves tingle, the head grows rested and the heart grows light.” The schoolmistress at Rush Greek, Ohio, is short aud slender. Considering her lightness, nine of the biggest boys concluded that it would be a trifling feat to pick her up bodily and carry her out of the house; but they did not take her activity into account* and when they undertook to carry but the plot she fractured One skull with a heavy ruler, scratched several faces terribly, aud discolored three eyes. The trial of Mo.-monism made byMack Johnson and his two Kansas City, Mo., was a failure. He married one woman there and ono in Wyaudotte. His bigamy was soon exposed, but the two wives agreed to a compromise, by which he was to live;a week with each in alternation. This arrangement lasted until he overstayed bis time with the Kansas City'wife, for which offence the Wyaddotte wife shot him. * iti: John E. O vsley went from Kentucky to Chicago to collect a bill for whisky. The debtor had no money, but offered some iui : near the city, which' Owsley df c'.iueu to take, though he was by a trick compelled to do so. That was when Chicago was young and small. The seemingly wortuless property soon acquired a value, which grew to something considerable, and made the foundation for the great fortune which Owsley has now left at his death, i>.