Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1883 — Theodore Parker and His Pupil. [ARTICLE]

Theodore Parker and His Pupil.

These were 539 deaths, 569 births* 247 marriages and 1,412 arrests in New York city last week. A correspondent in the New York Examiner (the Baptist organ) says: ■“More pastors are wanted in Missouri. Some one said recently that Missouri cOuld furnish work for 1,000 commonsense ministers. Salaries range from $660 to SI,OOO for men who can preach and work among the people. Kidglove ministers are not wanted. Mb. John Leveridge, the oldest lawyer in New York, will be 92 years, old Sept. 1. He distinctly remembers the funeral of Washington, witnessing it, in company with his sister, at the corner of Broadway and Yesey streets. The event was forcibly impressed upon his mind by the fact that when he got home he and his sister were soundly spanked by their mother. Capt. Ericsson, the inventor of the screw propeller, the monitor and hosts of other contrivances, is now 80 years old, although he appears only 50. His method of preserving his health is peculiar. Upon rising in the morning he ru)>s his skin briskly with dry towels, Then he takes a cold bath, in summer using crushed ice. Then come gymnastic exercises of a vigorous desorip. tion. When his system has recovered its normal temperature, Ericsson breakfasts upon eggs, tea and coarse brown bread. Then comes work.

Six years ago the schooner Ida Burdsall, commanded by H. C. Brewer, of Point Pleasant, Bailed from Philadelphia for a Southern port. She was never seen or heard from again. Mrs. Brewer finally married again and is now living happily in her old home. Two weeks ago a sealed bottle w.as picked up at Ocean’ Beach, near the home of the former Widow Brewer. Containing a hurriedly-written message from her husband which had been afloat in the bottle for six years. He said his vessel was being swamped in a storm off Cape Hatteras, and he expected to go down in a few minutes. He urged his son to.be kind to his mother and care tor her tenderly. The son and mother both recognized the handwriting at sight. That there are spots in America still a long way from the rest of the world in everything except geographical position is shown by the fact that the people of Anticosti have just reported their experience with Wiggins and his storm prophecies. Lying in the wide estuary of the St. Lawrence, the inhabitants of this bleak island expected vast trouble from the big blow of which they had in some way been warned, and set themselves to putting things in readiness. They even prepared extra shovels for use in digging their way out of the snowdrifts about to bury them. The hardest feature of the case is the fact that the Anticostians have been obliged to wait three months for the sweet satisfaction of telling how they made fools of themselves.

The safe of the Granite State, which was burned in the Connecticut river a 1 few weeks ago, contained but failed to preserve $75 in bank-notes belonging to the crew. The charred fragments, to all appearance a hopeless lot of rubbish, were sent to Washington, where experts with powerful microscopes have succeeded in identifying a considerable part of them. These certified fragments have all been redeemed by the banks which issued the notes except one, of the denomination of $5. This, the National Bank of Virginia, at Richmond, refuses to redeem, according to the Hartford Times , for the reason that the officers of that insti-. tution cannot see in it any resemblance to a bank note, and are unwilling to accept the decision of the Treasury at Washington. • The sparrow is a saucy adversary, afraid of nothing and seldom worsted in a fair fight, but of course he has to yield to superior numbers. Thus, not long ago in the'Austrian town of Klagenfurth, a throng of persons watched a siege which left a sparrow in a most deplorable situation. He had taken possession of the nest of a pair of swallows under the balcony roof of a savingsbank, and when they returned refused to be ejected, whereupon they flew off and presently returned with a score of their kindred, each bearing a lump of nmd in its bilk Before the sparrow realized what was going on his enemies

had shut him up in the Best, leaving only one small opening, out of which, at last accounts* his neck was hanging in a disconsolate manner. A Pons named Semiloff recently made a death-bed confession at Reed City, Pa. When a boy in Poland on the Russian frontier his father made him swear that lie would join with him in the extermination of the Russian family of Romanoff, one of whose members had eloped with young SemilofTs mother. His father began his instruction by killing a priest of the Romanoff family, leaving the pistol by his side, and the impression that he had Committed suicide. The murder of another of the family in Italy in whioh the son assisted resulted in the conviction of the father and the escape of the son to this country. In the Pennsylvania mining regions he encountered one Romanoff who had escaped the exile of the family to Siberia. One night two years ago Semiloff killed him. His disappearance caused nq inquiry, and was never investigated. Semiloff described the spot where he had buried the Russian, and the skeleton of a man with a huge knife still sticking in his body waa found there.

The semi-annual payment of interest on registered United States bonds, which occurs in January and June, is now being made. While it is very difficult to obtain exact information as to the largest receivers of interest from this class of United States bonds, yet, like almost anything else here, it can be had if one wants it badly enough. This year the largest single bondholder the treasury department knows is Mr. Vanderbilt, who will receive the interest on $37,000,000. A year ago he had $50," 000,000, but he has disposed of $13,000,000 for some purpose. The next largest owner is Mrs. A. T. Stewart, who has about $30,000,000. As some of hers are coupon bonds, the amount of her holding cannot exactly be told. ,Ten years ago Mr. A. T. Stewart had $40,000,000 in bonds, the most of them being sixes. Mr. Gould has $13,000,000 in registered bonds, and a large number of coupon bonds which he keeps to use as collaterals in Wall street when he needs large sums of money. A California millionaire, Mr. Flood, is the next largest holder, He has $15,000,000. Then there is an estate in Boston and three or four persons Jn New York who have each $lO,000,000, and a lady in New York—unmarried, too—has $8,000,0.00, andD. O. Mills, Whitelaw Reid’s father-rin-law, $4,000,000. On the other side of the water, American securities are very pqpular, and are preferred to those of other nations, because the rate of interest is higher than that paid by any other great power. The house of the. Rothschilds holds nearly one-quarter of America’s whole bonded debt, as, including all the bankers of that name, they have $400,000,000. Baron Leopold and Sir Nathan Meyer de Rothschild each owns $30,000,000, and the head of the Vienna houA has $25,000,000 in his own right. Lady Hannah de Rothschild, married the Earl of Roseberry a year or two ago, brought to her really-impoverished husband $20,000,000 in American four-and-a-halfs. The Baroness Burdett-Ooutts-Bartlett has $20,000,000 of our. four-and-a-rhalfs, the Duke of Sutherland $5,000,000, and Sir Thomas Brassey $5,000,000.*

In the life of Theodore Parker°a very beautiful incident one day occurred. It was before he was known to fame. He was only a teacher then, in Watertown, I think. He had among his scholars a little witch of a boy, whom no reproof and no persuasion cQuld induce to keep himself in order. One day, after his more than usually troublesome conduct, Mr. Parker required the little fellow to stay after school to be whipped. So the time had come for this last -resource # of the exhausted patience and skill of the teacher. According to directions, the little fellow held out his hand for punishment, as took it, Mr. Parker said, he looked down into the little face,and, as the boy looked so much like . his little sister, whose Conduct was all right' and who had won Mr. Parker’s love—he stayed the rod, and stooped down and kissed the innocent lips that were ready to break forth into crying and sent the pupil home. Is it probable that he was a worse boy after that? Somebody knows who tins boy was; man, if living now. I wish we “could learn from him the effect upon his life of that kiss of Mir. Parker’s.—Springfield Republican. A u betttbn of the cost of the British royal yachts shows that the average cost for maintenance of the yaoht Vicand Albert during the last teq years has been at the rate of $150,000 a year. The truly- wise man should have no keeper of,, his secret but himself.—< QuizoL