Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

A Philadelphia girl of 14 has died of delirium tremens. There are more German bakers in London than in Berlin. - Pat McGinnis drew his . fortune of $3,000 from a Bridgeport bank, and spent it all in a week’s spree. Suicide was accomplished at Andover, Mass., by gnawing the phosphorus from matches and drinking a pint of ink. Hereafter any teacher who accepts a present from pupils in the public schools of Hamilton, Ont., will be immediately dismissed. Nearly $10,000,000 was taken from the mines of Utah last year, and a bullion product 0f513,000,000 is predicted for the present year. Under a new State law, which went into force on Jan. 1, all railroad conductors in Georgia are clothed with the power of policeman. The quartet who sang "Remember now thy Creator” at the Cleveland funeral services of Garfield, are now singing it with a travelling company. • A religious revival is so attractive at Madison, Ohio, that all the stores and factories are closed during the afternoon, while the employees go to the meeting. There is a scandal in the Philadelphia bar. "Some of the lawyers have lapsed into the careless and disrespectful habit of addressing the Court while wearing their overcoats.”

There are in Alabama 2,250,000 aens of Government land subject to entry under the Homestead and Pre-empt ii n laws, and the entering of land" was never brisker than at present. New South Wales, with a revenue of over $30,000,000, has a surplus of sl,000,000 for last year, and the Treasurer announces that no further foreign loans will be needed for many years. An amateur journalist at Elkhart, Ind., announces that the purpose of his paper is "to restore to the public its wonted grandeur and prosperity.” Incidentally, he will receive subscriptions at 50 cents a year. lIAn actress of McVicker’s theatre, in Chicago, so bewitched a susceptible young man in the front row of the balcony that he threw kisses at her continuously, and, as he would uot stop, they put him out. Mike McDonald is a Chicago gam bier and politician. The Tribune says: "Let any man start a gaming house, aud, unless he pays tribute to McDonald, within three days the police will be upon him, and his place will be broken up.” Four negroes attended the ultrafashionable Tiger’s ball in Boston. They were officers of a Rhode Island military company, and were invited bva committee who did not know their color; but no objections were made to their admission.

Hens scratched up a woman’s garden at Pawtucket, and she poisoned them. To her horror, she saw the owner plucking them next day for the market, and her conscience gave her no peace till she had bought the lot at a price far above the hutcher’s offer. During the year 1879-80 there were exporteu from New Orleans 6,000,000 gallons of “pure olive oil,” extracted from cotton seed, of which eightyeight per cent, was sent to Mediterranean ports. Half of this amount went to Italy, the home of the genuina olive.

There is oue clergyman in Philadelphia who is not content with merely denouncing spiritualism as a fraud. He demonstrated that at least one medium was a trickster. Going to a public hall were apparitions were advertised to appear, he leaped on the stage, jerked down a curtain, and exposed the medium in the act of arranging himself in the garb of a ghost. There is an incorrigible little darkey down iu Washington, Ga. He i 3 nine years old, aud is known as a horse thief, as well as being willing to steal anything else. His mother has tried to reform him by whipping him for the first half of the day, and hanging him up in a bag and smoking him the other half, but the inhabitants of Washington despair of his being a trustworthy citizen. Since 1865 Tennessee has acquired nearly 400,000 additional population, aud has made crops every year of an average annual net profit of $27 500,000. Since 1870 Memphis, In spite of the war and thiee epidemics, has grown from 23,000 to 4 7 ,000, while Nashville has crept up from 17,000 population to 75 000. The growth of Chattanooga, Knoxville, and other iowns has beeu at proportionate rates. v Pearl Read cropped her hair, put on male attire, and "went across the line into Canada last Fourth as July to celebrate our national holiday iu the foreign city of Kingston. She got noisily drunk, broke some windows, aud was sent to prison for two years. She bore the punishment without complaint or discovery until a few days ago, when she confessed her sex, and sent a petition to the Governor-General for pardon.

The question of consolidating he two cities of New York and Brooklyn it rapidly coming to the front. Brooklyn has finished her autonmy, has completed her system of parks and aqueductq and will iu about a year have permanent bridge connection with the city of New York. The selfish interests of house owners in New York is opposed to this change, believing it will be followed by the erection or a series of bridges to Brooklyn, and a consequent decline of metropolitan real estate. There is no ground lor this, as the superior social advantages of New York island will always make it preferable to Brooklyn or any surrounding city. The natural premium on a house in New York is fully ojper cent. Good houses are .rented in Brooklyn for SI,OOO and less, and such a tiling is almost unknown in New York, where it is commonly said that every body pays from one-third to one half of their income for mere rent. The extravagant cost of living in the city threatens to become an injury to it, aud it is, therefore, to the interest of the general mercantile population here to see the facilities increase of connection witli the neighboring shores. The Brush Electrict Light Company is going to lighttaost of the docks around the cilv of New York. They are taking orders in various parts of the city to put up electric lights in the stores at the price of $1 a day.