Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

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St. John, the temperance Governor °/ Kansas, has officiary recognized the claims of women to official station by appointing Mrs. Cora M. Downs, of Wyandotte, to be a regent of the State University. A lover undertook to commit suicide in the presenfee of the girl who rejected him at Chattanooga, but she prevented him by force, first dashing a bottle of poison from his bands, and then, after a hard struggle, dispossessing him of a razor. Two women called on a Maine dentist simultaneously, one to have all her teeth extracted and the other only three. The dentist mistakenly put the latter under the influence of ether, and rendered her toothless. A j ury will estimate the damage. Minnie Brooks, a Chicago white woman, (drew public attention to herself a year ago oy turning her beer garden into a religious meeting house, and taking the lead in revival meetings held therein. She has now become conspicuous aneyv by marrying a negro. There exist in the Bengal Presidency 111 vernacular papers, with 36,000 subscribers. Forty-five of these, with a circulation of 20,000, are published in Lower Bengal, and the remainder in the Northwest provinces, the Punjaub, central India, and Rajpootana. Mr. Walter Powell,M. P., who is now given up as lost in a balloon ascent, was 39 years old, and he sat as a Conservative for Malmesbury since 1868. For many years past he has been an enthusiastic aeronaut, and has crossed St. George’s Channel to Ireland, and gone over to France several times. The Temperance Celonization Ho* ciety of Canada, intends to establish a colony of total abstainers on a large scale. A million acres of Government land has been secured for the purpose, and people who hate alcohol are invited to settle on it; the farms being sold at slightly less than the established price. It is to be presumed that restaftrants are cheaper in Jerusalem than in New York, for the benevolent Sir Mosee Montefioresent to that city 97 shillings for the entertainment of that number of poor arid learned men,'97 being his own age. Even poor and learned men here would scarcely be grateful for a 25-cent meal.

Victoria Stinson has just received S6O, in Toronto, because she happened to be born in a military barrack at Aidershot, England, while Queen Victoria was visiting the building. Her Majesty named the baby after herself, and deposited $25 in a bank, to be paid to her at the age of 21. The principal and interest have now been paid. Some British shipownershave begun to man their vessels with negro seamen exclusively, the officers alone being white men. They take them at the same wages as ordinary English or foreign seamen. Those who have tried the experiment state that they find colored men as good sailors as Europeans, and that they are more docile and less inclined to run away. A stone bridge to be built at Minneapolis bids fair to become one of the notable structuies of the world, it will consist of sixteen 80 ,eet spansand four 100 fpet spans, and, including the shore pieces, will have a total length of 1,800 feet. It will support two railway tracks at a height of over sixty feet above the water, and will run diagonally across the river below St. Anthony’s Falls. The cost is estimated at nearly $500,000. Ex-Gov. R. C. McCormick has purchasedJl6,ooo acres of land in the State of Colima, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. and is going into the business of coffee culture on a large scale. He has 40,000 thousand trees in bearing now and expects Jto plant 12,000 per year for fonr years to come. In order to encourage this industry, the State will remit for a period of ten years all duty on the coffee and all taxes on the land wheie it is grown An English sleuth hound, which at Blackburn, in England, detected with keen scent the spot where portions of the body of a child murdered and chopped up by the barbarous assassin were buried, has been brought to Dunkirk, Scotland, to try and discover the spot where the body of the Scotch; Earl Crawford, which was stolen from its vault,’ mav have been buried or hidden. But the Earl had been in his grave so long that there is.not the scent of fresh blood, as in the Blackburn case, to guide the hound.