Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — A NEW LECTURE. [ARTICLE]

A NEW LECTURE.

bn an old Theme. J Opinions of the Press. I l.ogansport, (Ind. t .Journal. w The address of Gen. Packard was one of the finest and one of the most eloqfientthat has ever beert delivered in this city. , Wabash, ilhd.) riaiudoaler. - : Everybody pronounces the address of Gen. Packard last evening to be one of the most eloquent and interesting ever delivered in Wabash. j ‘ Kalamazoo, (Mich.) Telegraph. Gen. Packard was listened to with eager attention, and the most evident indications that every person in the room followed his sentences from the opening to the closing of the address. *.' ’ A Adrian, (Mich.) Tirtica and Expositor. Gen. Packard is one of the most eloquent orators in the country. «l,.il*orte, (Ind.) Herald-Chronicle. Gen. Packard delivered one of the finest speeches at Hall’s Opera House, Saturday might, that, we presume, was ever listened to in this city. It was ableriogical, witty, humorous and eloquent. ~-

I.aPorte. (tnd.) Argus. Then followed a masterly speech by Gen. Packard, wherein he spoke of tlie trials and-hardships of a soldier's life, and carried the boys back to the tented field, thrilling them with the memories of camp and battle. The General made a most telling speech and one that will long be remembered by all who heard it. Jackson, (Midi..). Pally Citizen. Gfen. Packard’s address was a finished, eloquent asd perfect oration from beginning to end. The diction was classic, tue illustration apt, and tbc climax faultless in lofty grandeur.

William M. Evarts, who has beei elected to the Senate from New York, writes “Carp” in the Cleveland Herald, is probably the thinnest man in public life, and speaking of David Davis reminds me of an bid story which they tell here, which well illustrates the physical proportions of the two. It is said that Davis one night made some in vidiotis and sarcastic remarks on Evarts’ weakly form, and pointed to his own immense proportions in contrast. Mr. - Evarts replied that the race was not always to the fattest, and from this came a bet of a box of Mumm’s extra dry from Davis that he could beat Evarts on a race of 100 yards distance, provided Evarts would let him choose the ground and give him five yards start. Evarts, who has a frame made up of steel springs, and who is as active as a cricket, consenting, and the two started out to make the race in tho moonlight. A number of friends accompanied them, Evarts leading the way. At last they came to a narrow alley, hot more than five feet wide, and Judge Davis told Evarts this would be the race-track. Ho then took his place fifteen feet in front of Evarts. The starter said “Go! - ’ and the big, fat man and the little, lean one began to trot. At the fourth jump Evarts had about reached Davis, when the latter, putting his elbows out bo that they touched the sides of the alley, looked back and said: “There, Evarts! take vour time and don’t overheat yourself. I am bound to beat you P and, of course, he did.

How did G ordon happen to go to Khartoum ? The first proposal to that effect appeared iu the Pall Mall Gazette, and It has been supposed that the idea originated with that paper; but the New York Evening Post says it" has good grounds for believing that it originated in an entif-ely different manner ; that Gordon telegraphed the editor of the Gazette suggesting himself as the man to solve the Egyptian problem, and asking whether the ed : tor would support him. An affirmative answer* was sent, the editor "represented” the paper in an interview at Southampton, and the two or three articles which were supposed to express the demand of the people were written by Mr. Stead in Gordon’s own study, and submitted to hint in manuscript before being sent to London. Tho Post says: “We wonder whether Gordon sought divine guidance on that occasion by his usual method of tossing a halfpenny. If so, his fatalism betrayed him it the crisis of his life.” Mbs. Tom Thumb (nee Lavinia Ware ran) and Count Rosebud are soon to wed. There were two of the Warren sisters, both midgets. One died early. Tom Thumb | Charles Stratton) is not long dead. Since his day midgets have increased until they are no longer a novelty. The remarriage of his widow will create no such se&safeon as did the nuptials of Gen. Thumb and Lavinia Warren, so admirably worked as an advertisement by Barnaul 1