Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — GENERAL MISCELLANY. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

. No one wogd oovers so njueh "hqmbng as “art,” A pretty Wisconsin schoolmarm,to encourage promptness, promised to kiss the first scholar at school, and all the large boys took to roosting on the fence at night. Mormons are locating in targe nmbers in Lincoln county, Nev., and the Proche Record says; “There is little doubt that the Mormons will have displaced the Gentiles entirely itfanother year or two.” Mr. Vanderbilt’s head cook received the salary of $7,000 a year. Under him are over half a dozen other cooks whose salaries run from $5,000 to $2,000 a year. Wm. K?e head cook received salary of $6,000, and Cornelius pays his chief a similar sum. Nothing will secure better remuneration to the average farmer' than to assis£ in building up and encouraging home markets for desirable farm products. Among the first essentials in this direction is an increased variarty io the production. The yonng women of this day are showing a much more useful tendency than the young men. They are seeking work and supporting themselves in most instances with better judgment and more courage than is displayed by the average young man. Pabnell in'an interview in Paris declared on his honor that three of the ten men recently executed in Ireland were entirely innocent. He says the public mind has become so excited as not to prevent any peaceful solution of the Irish difficulties. The Laud League, he claims, is innocent of any part in the recent explosion in London, or of the Phoenix Park murder. Fuller, in his “Small Fruit Culturist,” says; Ido not believe that there is one acre of of strarwberries in a thousand, cultivated in this country, that yields over one half that it would if the ground was prepared before planting.” Here is a valuable hint foi horticulturists. Recruiting in England has practically ceased, not because recruits are not wanted, but because they will not enlist, though the army was never so spoiled and glorified with victory. The brigade of Foot Guards is below its number by 800 men, and it is found impossible to get recruits to fill up the deficiency. The same want of men and impossibility of getting them is equally left in the rest of the army.

A Paris paper discussing carriage etiquette suggests that the lady should, sit to the right of the gentleman, that being the place of honor. This may do for France, but when a young American goes a driving he finds that the only satisfactory plain is to guide the horse with his right hand and hold the young lady in the buggy with his left. Moslom fanaticism is beginning to assert itself again in Egypt. Old Sheiks mutter their hatred of all hat-wearing<or- , eigners. European ladies are often spat upon in the streets of Cairo. Arabi, down in Ceylon, is also becoming) saucy. A few days ago he kicked a butcher who had cheated him. For some reason or other, British rule never means pe ice. Colonel Cole, once the g 'eat railroad king in the South, is living a retired life at Nashville. He said to hav > softening of his brain, and can not live ] ang. Mr. H. Victor Newcomb, once the Young Napoleon of the South, and th s most formidable antagonist of King Co 0, is living in N. Y. a life of retirement, t tough almost blind, and no possible hopt of recovery. Four years ago their names were wafted upon every breeze that came from the land of the sun. Td-daythey are f irgotten, and to-morrow they may be dei d. Such, in brief, is the history of two il ustrious railroad men, who rode to great tees in a single night-