Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

Florida has only three daily papers, A misfit valentine store would do a big business. \ Nashville is retailing Irish potatoes at three for five cents. He who is perfectly vanquished by riches cau never be just. Boston’s census of voters by the police gives 83,197 names. It is the cross-eyed man who looks on both sides of a subject. It is curious that the pig must be killed Defore he can be cured. General Rosser, chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific railroad has resigned. It took forty extra carriers to deliver the New York city mail on Valentine’s day. An exchange tells of a man who "nearly put out his vital lamp by blowing out the gas.” The duke of Edingburg, is composing the music of an-operetta and has it nearly completed. Twelve bovs, ranging iu age from 11 to 14 years, are serving terms in the California penitentiary. Eleven hundred pictures were rejected by the committee of the artists* exhibition in New York. Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, has bought a hotel at Suspension bridge that cost $250,009, for $12,000. A fund, amounting to $12,000, has been raised for the family of the late Governor Wiliz, of Louisana. The Boston training school for nurses has graduated seventy-six nurses and •has about fifty students at present The Garfield professorship at Williams college now amounts to $42,000. Eight thousand dollars more is required-

The furniture for the palace of King Kalakaua.at Honolulu.has been ordered at Boston by the King’s chamberlain. Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, says: "The devout church goer who cannot be trusted on a week day is the present scandal of Christendom.” Mr. Ebenezer Prescott, the oldest resident of Troy, N. Y., and his wife celebrated the sixty-first anniversary of their marriage, on Monday. Candid: Counsel— " Why are you so very precise iu your statement? Are you afraid of telling an untruth?” \Vitness [promptly)— "No sir!” From the bank near the little town of Bciacca, Sicily, alone, within the last four years, more than 8,874,000 pounds of coral have been fished. The estate of the late Henry F. Durant, of Boston, the founder of Wellesley college, inventories $341,000 instead of $2,000,000, as was popularly supposed. California agriculturists are adopting many plants from China and Japan. Great hope is had for the success of the Soja bean, so extensively used for food in Eastern .Asia, The Pennsylvania railroad company will build 220 locomotives at its own shops during tha year. Thtre are at present about l,lou loemotives iu use on the line of the road. A Baptist minister immersed eleven persons in five minutes, at Clurinda, lowa, wading in aud out of the stream with each. Ft was a freezing day, and he had good reason for haste. Jennings, of Boston, filed with the Garfield auditing committee a bill for $5,000, lor the coustrucion of cool air apparatus in the executive mansion, during the illness of President Garfield.

A negro man in Christianburg, Va., is a habitual coal-oil drinker. He says in cold weather he often drinks a pint or more at one time, aud that the sensation produced is similar to that of whisky^ - Jefferson Davis’s daughter Varina is a great belle in the south. She is pale, sleuder aud reserved. At a recent ball she appeared as the Margravine of Beriuth in a rose pink velvet aud satin costume. The statement that all soldiers who enlisted between June 22. 1801, aud August 6,1861,are entitled to a bounty, is denied by the adjutant general, who says that no such decision has ever been made. Mr. Francis C Brown.of Wisconsin, offers gratuitou-'y to the executive committee of the Garfield memorial hospital a superior grade of Wisconsin granite, with which to erect the proposed hospital. The practice of keeping hives of bees in Paris has spread so exteusivley that the prefect of police has issued an order firbidding it for the future, except in tie case of persons who shall have received a special authorization. A Judge and a jury disagreed as to how much Mr. liobinsou of Hiduey, 0., ought to pay Miss Alleman for having kissed her against her will. The jury gave her a verdict of $450, and the Judge reduced the amount to S2OO. A dying man star lid the people of Bt. Albans, Vt., by confessing various crimes of which he had never been suspected, ranging from petty laicenies up to a murder; and there is corroborative evidence that he told the truth. According to Figaro, beef stewed in beer, and strongly odoriferous of the latter, is tne Prince Imperial of Germany’s favorite food, while his mother revels in eels and carp, with beer sauce, the venerable Emperor meanwhile lapping up with influite gusto his beer soup. Grogan and ‘McKenzie, influenced by the revival of popular interest in pugilism, went out to fight in a ring at Clinton, Mo. The encounters proceeded according to the established rules of the Rf, uutil McKenzie was nearly whipiiea, when he drew a pistol aud -44w»u at his antagonist. The bullet killed a spectator.

Mrs. Stewart was alone and unarmed when two tramps took forcible possession of her house, at New Vineyard, Me. While they were eating and drinking in the kitchen, she whittled a stick into the shape ofa pistol, blackened it with soot, and then made a fierce onslaught on the rascals who lied precipitately. Three voung fellows took it into their heads to dance at the grave of a friend at Lawrenceville, Hl. + and one them fell into it. Their conduct shocked the mourners, who drove them away, aud subsequently prepared to lynch them. They fled * hastily, making their way down the river, fourteen miles in a leaky boat, which finally sank uuder them. Tiiev swam to the shore, but it was a'cold night. They were too exhausted to go any further, end in the morning their dead bodies were found. As a part of tbe mourning for the Empress aud co-Regent, who died in Apiil, tbe Chiuese were forbidden to shave for a month. At Foochow the Mayor, finding that the order was disregarded, made a raid on the barber shops, aud sitfty culprits found, there were fined*, severely bastinadoed, and bad their shaven heads painted a bright blue—the color for mourning there—and nicely varnished. They further had to present themselves weekly for fresh coats of paint and varnish while tbe mourning lasted.