Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1882 — NEWS BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BREVITIES.

Lady Burdett-Coutts’ Columbia market is to be turned into a tobacco manufactory. The thunder of great words does not always betoken a great thought, for many a grand salute is fired with a blank cartridge. M. Gustavo Dore’s mother is dead, aged 74. He always lived with her. She was the widow of a government engineer of bridges and highways. Edmond de Lafayette, the younger brother of the late marquis, is now the only living grandson, in the direct male line, of Lafayette. Ex-Secretary Evarts gets even with the carpers who complain of his long sentences. He says the only men who object to long sentences are criminals. It is now said that the gentleman known as Commandant Alfred Aylward, now serving with the Boers, is no other than Murphy, the Manchester informer. Secretary Lincoln's face in repose is described as serious almost to sternness; but when he smiles it grows bright, and then he “is positively and undeniable handsome." The empress of Austria complains that England is disappointing after Ireland; tbat there is no “leppin,” and that the fields are too small for a good gallop. A distinguished German geographer is of opinion that the diamond district of Africa is the Ophir from which King Solomon drew such liberal supplies of gold and precious stones. Physicians in the mining regions say that the presence of diphtheria is directly traceable to oleomargarine, adulterated molasses, sugar, etc., which are largely used in that section. Jefferson Dayis Bill, of Connecticut, has completed his studies at Eastman College, Poughkeepsie. He has two brothers named Lecompton Constitution Bill and Kansas Nebraska Bill. Samual J. Tilden, though now an old man, is actively engaged in railway operations. He is estimated at $10,000,000, and hence may be considered the richest bachelor in the country. Lady Walter Campbell and Miss Baldock, though not professional beauties, are gaining celebnty as among the prettiest women in London, and the society papers seem likely to make them professionals in time. Prof. Ko-Kun-Hua, who graces the Chinese chair at Harvard, has frequent and severe twinges of rheumatism, and is said to express his opinion of the Melican climate in language that is more flowery than celestiat The wife of the Hon. Timothy O. Howe, of Wisconsin, will reside with her daughter, Mrs. Totten, in Washington, while the ex-senator is in attendance upon the international monetary conference in Paris. Mr. Wash- McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer , has purchased a lot in Washington on which he will erect a handsome mansion, to be presented to his daughter, the wife of Gen. Hazen, of the signal service. “Florence Percy," the author of “Rock Me to Sleep,” Mother, now lives in Maine, and edits a paper there. One of her young daughters has for a name her mother's nom-de-plume of Florence Percy. It is proposed to build a ship canal across the State of Dele ware- A comBany8 any is to be formed with a capital of 30,000,000, and application has been made to the Legislature for the right of way. An old man in San Francisco committed suicide because two confidence swindlers had robbed him of $2,600, by which act he saved them from punishment, as he was the. only witness Against them. The Austrian Empress* hunting exploits in Ireland ana England are considered scandalous by the stay-at-home ladies of the couit in Vienna, whose taste lies in dress, eating, balls, and theatricals.