Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1882 — FEUILLETON. [ARTICLE]

FEUILLETON.

"Elbe Philadelphia Press says it is a fact that Kri Blaine has refused the English mission tfease times. During the last 12 months over 10,000 deei Base been ruthlessly slaughtered in Jacksou etnmty, Oregon. The Augusta Chronicle lias faith that the Dtetuocrats will yet compel AJeek Stephens tanm for governor of Georgia. When Senator McPherson of New Jersej steps out at the expiration of his term next March, Air. Robeson will step in, if nc cam. Tho heads of Mr. Cetywayo’s household an HEstresses Umponsi, Upswaro, Ungenisle, Unoxixcobo and Uncebeza. Unoxixcobois six feet tall A Presbyterian congregation at Louisvilb bae discharged its pastor, the Rev. Mr. Adam because they found him preaching sermons that others had written. The Cincinnati Gazette will gain no friends aoffltg Democrats if it calls that party a seunvr into which the criminal classes and all e®s»Qnents of law and order are received. Senator Hill’s condition, in spite of the triumphant declarations of the physicians who Immpk. been operating upon his face, is extxrcmeJy critical, and he has about given up the fight. ®r. Parnell’s Eastes egg had a shell of silver- and the contents were 100 guineas from Liverpool sympathizers. An egg with such contents could have been laid only by o Gohtea ben. The employment of a female physician as IShr bead of a female insane retreat at Harmafaiarg has been so successful that Dr. Alice Bennett has been placed in charge of the 400 limatic women at the Norristown, Pa., asyinwL. The way the St. Louis Post speaks of the •fcsxc James business is, that the governor Eared a horse thief to kill an unpopular citiawo. The editor of the St Louis Post must be*, very valuable addition to the populate at Missouri.

Tt»e English channel tunnel is to be 22 rawfcs long, 18 by 20 feet in diameter with taa railroad tracks, and the income is expected to be $6,000,000 annually, from which, if the eggs all hatch, there will be dividends. An lowa court has just decided that Mary Ellis, who was acknowledged to be the legal wife of Myron Ellis, was not his legal widow. It appearing that he was married to another woman in lowa, having left his first wife in Canada, the court, rather than allow that he was guilty of bigamy, presumed that there Emhl been a divorce, though there was no evitlraace of it, and gave the estate to the second wife, there being no other heirs. The caw is mow before the court of appeals. The Secret telephone company has been incorporated by the New York legislature This telephone is much smaller than Bell’s awd is called secret because when two per wms are conversing from opposite ends of tfase wire, nobody else can hear what they say. Besides, it is much more effectual than any other yet invented. In au experiment in Washington, conversation in a low tone at a distance of 25 feet from the transmitter was heard plainly two and one-half mi Im way. Asn Served Him Right.—The ceremony «Fscourging an effigy of Judas Iscariot was Bone through, on Good Friday, with great nwtion, by the crews of three Portuguese amd Maltese vessels lying in the London clocks. A block of wood roughly hewn into hsman linwnn -nts and shape was first earned in procession around the quarterdeck of am of the vessels, and then hung from the yard arm. The flogging then began amidst gwnenu and sustained execration. Each <nu, armed with a knotted rope, belabored t»e insensate block, heaping upon it at the same time the most fearful vituperation. After being duly scourged, “Judas” was cut down, cast upon the deck, cursed, spat upon ■nd ultimately kicked to the galley fire wtere, after being burned to a charred ■mas, he was hurled amid fierce anathema* Bdo the water. The sailors then went U ■torch. _ A Step Towards Settling the Woman Q MBKTtON - —The intellect of New Haven has fey sorely tried of late in trying to discover wtether servant girls or shop girls make the **?* l Qs tead of proceeding in the ■riMrtific way by collecting statistics and —King experiments, the parties to the con•“"'■’■'Y argued from a priori considerations." Tbe tedium of thediscussion was relieved by ■ bc* method of arriving at accurate conda—ns adopted by a shop girl and a servant jptl. After discussing the merits of the avnasCion fora while, they adjourned to th* •■mrof a livery' stable and clutched and ■sewed each other till separated by the