Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — The Dress of a Chinese Bride. [ARTICLE]

The Dress of a Chinese Bride.

' A kovel experiment o? carrying a railroad through, a foreot has been tried in Sonoma Coimtv, California. The trees have been sawed off and levelled and the ties are fastened on the stumps, two of which are huge redwoods standing side by side and reaching seventy-five feet from the ground! So firm is this , support that heavilyloaded cars pas 3 over with perfect security. “I can open the best look that was i every made in five or six hours,” said a Washington locksmith. “These little office safes I wouldn't put that mueh time on. They don’t pay enough. I just take a hammer and break the knolr off - , and can get into the saje in about three seconds. No safe was ever made but it had some weak point known to the maker, so he could get into it in case ( the lock should refuse to respond.”

In Ontario passenger trains are not started on Sunday. Recently it was attempted on the Credit Valley, a new road, but so strong was the public feeling aroused that the company felt constrained to abolish the Sunday train. When the Dominion government directed that the Welland canal be opened during twelve hours Sunday, so strong was the expression of public opinion on the subject that in a few weeks the order was countermanded. Rearing a memorial to a creation of fiction seems a little out of the ordinary. They have come pretty near it at “Wicksworth, England, however, where a Redo memorial hall is to be built. George Eliot’s preaching woman in Adam Rede is Dinah Morris, the original o£ whom Avas Elizabeth Evans, the author’s on aunt; Dor many years she preached in the town of Wicksworth, and the necessity of a new chapel suggested the notion of a memorial building- *

A minister of the gospel in Pennsylvania has been fined $l3O for having united in marriage a young couple neither of whom was of age. As ttie rural wedding fee is said to average sl, 1.30 ceremonies will have- to be performed before the unfortunate preacher can catch up. He will also labor under the disadvantage of requiring all future applicants to visibly verge on the sere aud yellow in order that he may be on the safe side.

A great sensation is caused by the rumor that the Earl of Durham, a large land owner, an incipient politician and the bearer of an illustrious name, is about to bring an action for a judicial separation from liis wife. She is a very beautiful woman, and it was only the other day when all the town was talking about the generosity of the bridegroom in making hor a present of .£50,000 worth of jewelry in addition to the heirloom in the family. The cause assigned is the discovery that the unhappy lady is mentally unsound. It is reported that when the late Secretary Folger was a member of the New York State Senate, at the close of the famous Tweed charter, two senators, who were strongly suspected of having accepted bribes, rose to give their reasons for voting against their party. One of them, turning toward Mr. Folger and the other faithful Republicans, expressed regret at having to differ with them, and then quoted: “ ’Tis hard to part with friends so dear.” “How dear?” cried Folger, quick as a flash; “will the Senator name his prices?” A London paper publishes a curious case of bigotry in real estate. A Mr. Daniel, of Stordleigh Court, Tiverton, recently advertised a farm to 'be let. * The highest bidder was a Mr. Yeddell, and it was agreed that he should lease the farm. Before the leaso was sighed, however, he was asked if he were a churchman, and replied that he was a Wesleyan. Subsequently he received a letter from Mr. Daniel’s agent, saying that Mr. Daniel had decided not to leaso him the farm, as all his other tenants were churchmen, and no exception could be made.

At La Canada, in Los Angeles county, California, what is known as “corn grass,’’ a wild kind of pampas, is very abundant. During the spring and summer it is „ green, fresh,-and abundant.'growing to a straight height of from nine to ten and a half feet. Yet the stalks are small, also the roots, but they are so solid that a wind could not blow them an iota from the perpendicular. But in the fall and winter this growth becomes stiff, with a strong fibre/ and with proper application—there are many acres of it—would moke better paper than straw or cactus. An interesting ruin m Mexico is - thus described: The hill is about seven hundred feet high, and half way up there is a layer of gypsum, which is as white as snow and may be cut into any conceivable shape, yet. sufficiently hard to retain its shape after being cut. In thi3 layer of stone are cut hundreds upon hundreds of rooms from 6xlo to 16x18 feet square. So even and true tre the walls, floor, and ceiling, so plumb and level, as to defy variation.

The bride's was of pale blue bilong, trimmed with rare old toyah, while the were of six full lengths of yellow Bigee. Her hair was dressed ala Hong Kong, there being no bangs of any description. Her charming little feet were half hiefflen in a bewitching pair of silk slippers with the heels knocked off. This vision of loveliness was carefully placed in a carriage and driven to the apartments of the bridegroom, who was wandering what sort of a companion his relatives and friends had selected for him.-—Portland Oregonian.