Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

« - TMr. Blaine ’(years a seven amr threeeighths ha:. ( There are 4,000 blind persons in Pennsylvania Bologna is the link th9t unites man with the brute. There are 1,216 convicts iu the Georgia penitentiary. In the Yosemite valley there are fifty-nine residents this winter. Key West, Florida, has 12,00 > inhabitants, and only two coimuevs. The friction of a belt is said to be double as much on wood as it is on iron. * Mrs. Shelley, of St. Louis, held a pickpocket fifteen minutes aud the police got him. It is fashionable in England to drive horses three abreast to sleighs, as the Russians do. The oldest charcoal furnaces in the United States are at Cornwall. Lebanon county, Pa. Senator David Davis Will improve the grounds around the Lincoln monument, at Oak Ridge, 111. The question whether a Methodist layman may race horses without sin, is before a Troy church. A stone church, built two hundred years ago bv Piiritaus, is used by Unitarians at Hiugham, Mass. The word guito, pronounced geeto in the Spanish language, means treacherous aud vicious, as applied to mules. Land iu Fleming county, Ky., sold last week for sllO per acre, tue highest price that has been paid since the war. | Mr. H. B. Bryant, who founded I forty-eight business colleges in this | country, has now au interest in but i one, According to Prof. Young, the total quantity of light emitted bv the sun is equal to 6,300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 candles. ] A son of the late Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, will be speaker of the house of represeutatives/ofthat State next year. English sparrows have become such a nuisance in Chattanooga that the council has authorized their slaughter ! wherever found.

What is called respectability is a great help to many men. Once they have obtained it, they can put in-a lie where it will do the most good. Walton county, Ga., boasts a doubletailed goat. One caudal appendage is normally located; the other hangs from oetween the horns and is perfectly developed. The pneumatic tube in London used for transferring mail bags is four and one-half feet iu diameter aud two miles iu length,..and in few cases passengers have traveled in it. The number of post cards despatched in Germany during the year 1880 was 128,000.u00. Iu the post office museum at Berlin there are exhibited 418 different kinds of post cards Familiziug is a new Massachusetts word. It means placing dependent children of towns o-. Ihe State in families instead of congregating them in reformatories and orphan schools. A dentist in Morgantown, West Virginia, has made from India rubber and gun a percha an entire face for Elias Cartwright, of Marshall county, who had his lips, eyelids aud nose burned off'. Just imagine the feelings of a Vicksburg grocer who failed the other day aud discovered that he could pay I<X> cents on the dollar and have over $2,000 left. He admitted that he wasn’t much on book-keeping. Gen. C. A. Whittier, of Boston, is putting up on Beacon street the finest house ever seen in the Hub—seven stories high, over fifty rooms, the largest wme cellar in the country, and to cost about $200,000. The following prize question has been propounded by the “New York debating club:” Ts a fifty cent piece with a hole in it is worth thirty-five cents, what is the value of the hole without the half dollar. A youth in Raleigh, N. C., who had invited a young lady to attend a public entertainment, employed two colored men to clean a dozen street crossings between her house and the hall, that she might walk dry shod. The board of health of Brocade, N. Y. has served a notice on a farmer living near tnar place to wash himself. He has not done so it is claimed, for forty years, and so filthy had he become that a committee was appointed to abate the nuisance. A Methodist Church at Eagle Bridge, N. Y„ is divided on*the question of accepting as a gift the money raised by a hall. The pastor has declined the donation, but some members argue that, as the church did not promote or counentauce the ball,there would be no impropreity iu taking the proceeds. Two little brothers broke through the ice on which they were skating in Cincinnati. While they were clinging desperately to the edge* of the ice and efforts were being made to reach them tlie older one cried out: “Be sure and take Willie out first.” But both Willie aud his generous brother were drowned.