Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

Many tramps are wintering in Florida. Tbete ate 523 papers publishers in lowa. Augustus Schell is to be president of the Wagner car company. The latest charm for a lady’s watch charm is a tiny silver teapot. The Chicago Press club refuses to admit woman to membership. The Detroit public library has 42,413 books and $15,900 cash balance. Chattanooga bought $1,500 worth of bibles from a canvasser in two weeks. TheJJeannette took with her 5,000 tallow candles as presents for the Esquimaux. j Seven out of eight Boston purchasers of tickets to Oscar Wilde’s lectures are woman. Cassius M. Clay, the sire of many fast trotters, is dead, near Lexington,in his thirtieth year. The Rev. George W. Dunlap, a Western revivalist, has eloped with a fair Kentucky convert. A Macon mule that has|been in aotive •service for forty-five years has been excused from further duty. Seventy-five thousand acres of land in Wythe county, Va., will be sold at auction at the March court. King’s balloon has been brought out of the woods, above Eau Claire, in a good state of preservation. A Putnam county, Florida, tunipmeas ured three and a half feet in length and twenty-two inches in circumference. In most of the larger towns of Germany art classes have been established for mechanics, and are largely attended Ella Tunney ran heedlessly into debt for fine clothes at Seymour, Ind., and then committed suicide because she could not pay. All civil uniforms are out of date in Paris to-day. Cocked hats and silver lace are of the past, and ordinary blaok coats are de riguer. A Pawtucket hen picked the S7OO diamond out of a pin. It was safely hidden in her crop, and she did not survive the discovery. Georgia is the only southern state that, since the war. has named a country after a live Yankee. The Yankee is Wiliam E, Dodge, of New York. Col. Benj. S. Ricks, of Yazoo county, Miss., the second largest planter in the south, employs 1,000 men, and made 2,000 bales or cotton last year. Information recently- received from New Zealand justifies the belief that the colony has had a very narrow escape from being involved in another Maori war. In France nowadays brides have very few dresses in their tronsseaux, the current modes being so variable, but they have more material in the piece than formerly. An oldman at West Cheshire, Conn., has made all his property over to his wife, on condition that sne gives him food, clothes, lodging, and one pint of rum every day as long as he lives. The officials of London,Canada,have distinguished themselves by declining to protect the first Chinaman who settled in that city, and, as the roughs gave him no peace, he was compelled to quit the place. The Emperor and Crown Prince of Germany are reputed very easy going masters in their respective establishments. When the bell is a long while being answered, the latter has a way of supposing “those wires are out of order again.”

Bister Mary Joseph, the head of the Bisters of Providence.an Indiana Catholic order, who died lately, was a sister by birth of Irma de la Motte, whp renounced rank and fortune in Brittany to embrace a life of privation in the swamps ofjndiana. A prudent theatrical company telegraphed to Springfield, Mass., to learn if they would be safe from small-pox in that city. The City Physician replied: ‘■Our patients are safely lodged in the hospital, and none of them care to attend your peformance,” A sentenced murderer in Bt. Louis is reeisting*the efforts of all the clergymen who try to prepare him spiritually for death. "I have always taken care of myself,” he says, “and I guess my soul will be able to do the same.” No argument moves him. Two men fought desperately at Rosemont, Minn., and one was killed with the knife which he held in his own hand. The case is likely to puzzle a jury, as some of the witnesses say that tue wound was caused by a fall upon the knife, while others are sure that the survivor grasped his antagonist’s and in that manner made the s ab. At the recent demonstration at Avondale, Mr. Parnell’s residence in Wicklow, there were 600 carts engaged in carting the manure and 183 ploughs in operation. The men were decorated with green ribbons and the horses with green boughs. Toward the close a duntr cart paraded, from which rose the effigy of “The Last Landlord,” through which was driven a sarge fourp. onged fork amid great enthusiasm. It is proposed to light up the greater part of the Suez Canal by electricity, with the twofold object, first of enabling dredging operations to be carried ou at night instead of during the day, and next, in order that vessels may pass through at all hours instead of blocking up the passage and anchoring, as hitherto. Dan of Warrensburg, Pa., was a terrible blasphemer. A horse kl;kedhimina barn the other day, and ejaculations were uncommonly prolonged and violent. Then flames broke out among the hay, and the building was destroyed. There is ne convincing the neighbors that Dan’s sulphurous language did nht kindle the.fire.