Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

The hair-to dreged close, fla>, and with-wry l«|le fluttness. -Potarteti basques with panier puffs on the hips are gaining favor. Shirred bodices are to be fashionable next spring and summer. Spanish lace, both black and white, is as muchthe rage as ever. Wreaths of roses'find other flowers are revived for ball coiffures. * fie date of Oscar Wilde’s* arrival is sestJtetic.T (It was Jan. 2,18&>’2. Shtin, Moire', and plush are the most popular materials for evening dress this winter. Several of Col, Mapieson’s chorus singers gotdrunkaud pugilistic in Boston, and had to pay fines in a police court. • •• The Mormons expect converts from London next month, comprising i numberof familiesand about 200 unmarried women. Judge Tourgee’s “A Fools Errand” proved a failure in the. form of a drama and the .company . which went on a tour with it has disbanded. Horace Johnson takes pride in being the first man to cross the Connecticut river on the ice every year,and nobody has beaten him since 1870. There will be an unusual demand for beautiful women next summer, as nearly every circus will, make one the feature of its street procession. A boy dropped a live coal down the back of a schoolfellow for fun at Ware, Mass., and the burned youth’s father thinks the joker’s father ought to pay SI,OOO damages. The proprietor of anew billiard room in Dallas, Texas, expresses his earnest hope that Texatis Will therein employ their “proverbial scientific psacision of the eye in making sure shots?” The Faithful delight in water brought from the sacred well of Mecca. Its analysis shows so large a percentage of disease-breeding filth that the physicians pronounce it “bottled cholera.” The empress Augusta of Germany is far from being a beautiful old lady. She is tall, painfully slender; a woman of many angles whose sharp features express a stern, hatd and hadghty nature.

A Memphis man has a wine-glass that was given to his great-great-grand-father by Wm. Penn. It was one of a dozen brought from England by Penn when he founded the colony of Pennsylvania. In the new myrtle green riding habit of the Empress of Austria the skirt is so arranged that in case of accident it may be by a single movement disengaged and prevented from encumbering the feet. Dto Barksdale of the Virginia Lunatic Asylum reports the case of a negro lunatic whose brain weighed, seventy ounces This is suppose ! to toe the largest brain on record except that of Oliver Cromwell. It is stated that the result of recent geological explorations made in Russia by official direction show the existence in that empire of phosphate deposits sufficiently extensive to supply the wants of Europe for an indefinite period. At a temperance revival at Ridgeway, Elk county, Pa., five hundred persons signed the pledge in one week. The receipts of the two saloons of the town in that week footed, up fifteen cents. * Thomas T. Hehry, who was born of slave parents In 1852, has been admitted to tbe Philadelphia bar. He i» the first colored lawyer to pass the examination of the examining board of the Philadeplbia bar. A little Texarkana girl who has been cross-eyed all her. life, awoke a few morniugs since with the defect entirely gone. Since chat tiuae tUete has not been the least symptom of its return. No remedies had ever been used to cure her? Like tbe generality of king? qud conquerors, Frederick the Great had a philosophic indifference to th#'health of others. In one of his battles, a battalion of veterans having to their heels, he galloped after them, bawling out, “Why do you foil away, Sou old blackguards? Do yon want to ve forever?” j. 1 . The wife of the new Chinese Minister, a lady of high rank iu her own country, will not enter Washington society at present. She speaks only her own language, her little feet will not allow her to go about unsupported, and ; she is, to crown all, exceedinly bashful. There is a Charley Ross case at Oconto, Wis., the kidnappers secreting a little son of Captain Dickenson, and demanding SI,OOO. A search at last accounts was being made for the boy. The father, though wealthy and not penurious,positively refused to pay the blackmail. Twenty-five years ago the city of Albany, New York, with a population of 57,000. consumed 850 pounds of opium and 375 ounces of morphia annually. 'Now, with a population of 91,000, there arO 3,500 pounds of opium *'nd 5,500 ounces of morphia sold every year in that city. i Mr. Mulhall of the statistical society of London estimates the amount earned by commerce, manufactures, mining, agriculture, carrying and banking in Europe in 1880 at £7,683,000,000, showing an increase for Great Britain of £337,090,000, against £1.218,000,000 for the rest of Europe. The Harris Community was founded in Chautauqua ,County fourteen years ago by Thomas Lake Harris, who taught salvation through self-renunci-ation, and that properly married and disciplined couples became a single being after death. The enterprise has failed, and the property has just been bought by Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, for $91,000. Albert E. Gore did not 'meet with much success as a rogue in his native town of Quincy, Mans., though he tried all manner of small swindles. He went away, was absent several years, and lately returned wearing the uniform of a lieutenant ih_ the United States navy, He said that he had grown prosperous and Belftreepectlng. This time his aoouamtances were oft their guard, and he robbed them extensively before they understood his -Same. • '