Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

-Spanish laces are largely imported. There are 207 chartered railroads iu Texas. The Russians call their convicts “un fortunates.” Black is much worn at Washington receptions. Vem is a new coined word to signify vegetable diet q Dakota territory’s cash ’ valuation is almost $48,000,000. The censius of Egypt is to be taken on the 3d of May. The Chilian bite proves to lbe much worse than the Peruvian bark. The United States mail service covers au area of 2,970,000 square miles. General Hancock recently purchased a large tract of laud in Minnesota. The St. Louis bridge is becimiug a very popular place of resort for suicides. Pennsylvania has ouly one copper mine. It turned out SB,OOO worth last year. It is snid that the first requisite for an able-bodied aesthete is intense laziness. John Sbiefly and Mary Sbiefly, of Reading, Pa., have beeu married 72 jears. David Dudley Field is 77 years old, and bus practiced at the New Y< .k bar since 1828. Iu nine months Boston has bad fiftyfour cases of small-pox, and ouly nine were fatal. Tw t o brothers in Missouri have sent six thousaud wild turkeys to market this winter. Three degrees of mining speculation —Positive, mine; comparative, miner; superlative, minus.— — A mailed knight must have required a good many postage stamps to carry him througn successfully. New Hampshire has already had seventy-two inches of snow this winter, and is expecting more. A. man arrested iu Louisville for carrying concealed deadly weapons.had a cocked revolver in his"hat. A child was born, without arms in Toronto, Canada, a few days ago. He is healthy and Is expected to live. In a slander suit in Oregon the court held that “an honest man is a man who won’t steal firewood on a cold night.”

‘•No, sir said the old gentleman, “my daughter will not marry just at present. lam not wealthy enough to support a son-it -’aw.” “ You must make calls,’’said an uncle to his nephew, “whether you like it or not, for there’s always pleasure to be derived —if not when you enter, at least when you come out.” Bishop Colenso’s name has been struck from the list of the English clergy, and thus he is no longer officially recognized as bishop of Natal. Aan - gular feature of the case is that his sala ry goes on as of old. Captain Stone, the trainer and former owner of the mare, says Mr. Vanderbilt intends to make a road-horse of the phenomenal trotter, Maud 8., the coming spring, and that she will never again trot against time. Hiram Sibly, one of the wealthiest men Rochester,N. Y., is proprietor of a 40-000 ac;e farm in Illinois, which is said to be the largest cultivated farm in the world; 3,0(J0 acres of it were last year devoted to seed-raising. An old man broke through the ice at Bay City the other day. He had his hands in his pants’ pockets when he fell in and as his pockets were wet he couldu’t getliis hands out, but he hung his chin on the < dge the of the ice, and thus kept afloat till somebody pulled him out. A ricn copper mine has been rediscovered in ths vaeiuity of Tucson, Arizona, within a few weeks. Nearly fifteen years ago it was first found, but the men who located the claim were driven from the mountains by hunger and neglected to take accurate bearings of the spot. Since then four or five prolonged attempts to find the rich deposit have failed. Michael Dargan has been arrested in Providence for dragging his wife down stairs by her hair “He is said to be a graduate of Dublin University, a hero who got 5)7,000 for helping capture the rebel ship Circassian, according to the report, which naively adds: “He married twelve years ago a belle of Providence, Nellie Atkinson, and though rum has since changed the noble heatted Irishman into a Piute, she will not desert him, but gets drunk with him.” The Marquis of Huntly, against wtyirn a warrant, precedent to extradition, has been applied for to the Mayor o' London, is the premier Marquis of 8.-otlnnd, and is 34 years old. His fall, which was owing to heavy losses on ou the turf and a consequent plunge into the dead sea of Judaic discount, is much regretted, a* he was personally very popular. He has been married twelve years to the daughter of Cunliffe Brooks, M. P. for East Cheshire, but has had no children. A Quincy, 111. special says: “A good deal of excitement has been occasioned among Jews here by the mysterious disappearance of Bolomon L. Zakikoff, a Russian Jewish fugitive, who arrived three weeks ago. He was twenty-three years old, and has a wife and child and is a laborer. Ou Monday a well-dressed stranger visited him and induced him to go, as is believed, to Chicago to get work. The Jews mink the stranger was an agent of the Russian government here to extort certain secrets that Zahlkoft posM-ses. A boy died in Philadelphia of hydrophobia. In one of his struggles a bit of from his lips flew into his father’s eye. The man had a nervous temperament, and he imagined he had become inoculated with the disease. He felt all the symptoms, gave the peculiar

coughs resembling barks, and writhed in. agony. A physician assured him that hydrophobia could not possibly have developed in a few hours, nor from such a cause, but that made no difference. Powerful doses of chloral were required to quiet him, and he was left almost lifeless by the violence of the attacks