Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — Accepted His Apology. [ARTICLE]

Accepted His Apology.

" At a recent meeting in Cleveland Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle, read a selection from Paul with reference to charity, in wliich Paid says: “I spake as a child.” Then Mr. Murphy added: “I have always thought Paul was a countryman of mine, but that we got cheated out of him somehow. Who but an Irishman ever said ‘spake’?” <

The Philadelphia Record publishes a list of the persons who were reported to the police as missing last year, and the number reaches 600. Among those who “mysteriously disappeared” were fifty-six girls between the ages of 12 and 21, and seventy-four boys, aged from 12 to 20, the others being adults. Wliat a field for dark imagination or gloomy speculation the facts provide.

The weeping willow, say the Garden, seems to have had a romantic history. The first cion was sent from Smyrna in a box of figs,-to Alexander Pope. Gen. Clinton brought a shoot from Pope’s tree to America in the time of the Revolution, which, passing into the hands of John Parke Custis, was planted on liis estate in Virginia, thus becoming the progenitor of the weeping willow in America.

A recent writer notices the fact that although the present century has been, par excellence, the century of science, yet it has given birth to the marvelous imaginations of Scott, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Carl'le, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Leopardi, Victor Hugo, Tourgueneff, and Heine, which shows, he thinks, that whatever may be the disenchantment of science, it covers too small a field to beat back tli'e imagination of man. The secret of Mr. Bigelow’s refusal to accept the position of assistant treasurer at New York has at last leaked out. His wife objected to his assuming an office of so much care and responsibility, and in compliance with her wishes he wrote the letter of declination. As the story goes, however, lie was afraid of the ridicule Republican papers would heap on him if his reason for giving up the office were disclosed, and so he carefully kept it from the public; *

“Pauline Bonaparte, the beautiful sister of the first Napoleon, was a modest woman,” says the San Francisco Ingleside, in defending an artist or that city, “and she did not hesitate to pose for a nude model for Cnnova, who perpetuated her exquisite form in the statue of ‘Sleeping Venus.’ The story they tell concerning this fact serves to illustrate her real delicacy and sound sense. Some prude asked how she could have been willing to pose for the sculptor. ‘Why, there was a fire in the robm,’ was her ingenuous reply.”

One of the heroes of . the FrancoGerman war has just died, Gen. Bonnemains, who commanded the Cuirassiers in the famous cavalry charge at Reichsliofen. The feat of arms by which he saved the advance of the Germans, while his men fell in Scores around him under the murderous fire, until Marshal MacMalion had got clear away from the Woerth and Froeschwilier, is commemorated, on many a canvas and in song; and to this day the appearance of a cuirassier regiment at a review is always greeted with frantic plaudits. Gen. Bonnemains was 71 years of age.

Five Mile Beach Island, near Cape May, has an unique and beautiful feature in its holly groves, which stretch for four miles along the island. Many of them are very aged trees. Their trunks are more than a foot in diameter at half their height. The light gray bark, with tints of pale green and patches of brown, bring together the hoariness of age and the tenderness of yoiith. The moss hangs from the branches as if the forest were Southern, while the evergreen leaves and the bright red berries keep up the illusion of summer in the drearier days of frost.

The startling result which' has followed the experiment of sending to France for treatment by M. Pasteur of boys bitten by a mad-dog in Newark is well calculated to make scientists pause and reflect. One of the boys sent to Paris, little Eddie Ryan, was accompanied on the trip by his mother, and now not only does Eddie come back apparently cured, but he conies back also with a little brother, born to Mrs. Ryan on the return trip. If the effect of Mi Pasteur’s treatment of a little boy be to make that little boy well and to give him a baby brother within two weeks, then the discovery is even a more wonderfsl_thing than has been claimed. "What the £3 rants will say on“ this point must be awaited with the keenest inter- . eat. * f - The Washington correspondent of the fit. Louis Globe-Democrat writes? ‘■’When Senator Bevry, of Arkansas, came on to take his seat Col. Dave Caruth of St. Louis, who is an intimkte personal friend of Mr. Berry, wrote to Senator Vest requesting him, <&« a personal favor, to ‘take care’ of the new Senator. Judvc Rogers, Arkansas delega-

tion,tpßs how the Missourian tliackatgoo the trust. When the new Senator appealed Mr. Vest approached him and said; ‘Berry. Dave Caruth writes me to take care of you. All I’ve got to say to yon is, to bring on vour family and keep them with you. If you don’t, in six months you won’t be worth a d—n’. That was the sum total of Mr. Vest’s advice; but Judge Rogers says it was ' the very best that could be given.

The new German ironclad Oldenburg will be of entirely novel construction. It is a broadside ship with ten ten-inch guns—five on each side, two* above and three below deck, but the whole five can be concentrated on the 1 same point with sufficient force, it is estimated, to disable even the strongest iron Clad. The displacement Of the Oldenburg is 5,200 tons, and her engines 3,900-horse power, enabling her to steam fourteen English miles an hour. The German Government are apparently not well satisfied with the construction of the torpedo-boat at Stettin. They have ordered new ones in England, and refuse to accept six that have been completed. China has also ordered her three new ironelads to be built ‘in England and not at Stettin.

Generai, Sheridan has just been presented with a gavel, to be used by him as President of the Army of the Cumberland, which is somewhat unique. It is made of wood from a tree, still standing, which marks the spot where Gen. Lytle, of the Army of the Cumberland, fell mortally wounded. A mus-ket-ball, shot frgm an old Springfield rifle, still remains imbeded in the gavel. Gen. Lytle will be recalled as the author of that remarkable poem, “Antony and Cleopatra.” Richard Reals was then a soldier in the Eighty-second Illinois Infantry, and at the time was serving with Gen. Lytle as orderly. They were friends, and the night before the Brigadier’s death, Reals wrote to him one of his most spirited sonnets. It was found in Lytle’s vest pocket, shot through and stained by his blood. Sarah Bernhardt has been attending the French Chamber. Her object in going was to hear Clemenceau, and it may be catch his eye and charm him by the marks of interest she was prepared to show when he would be in the tribune. Her toilet was one to’ be seen in a crowd, being of crimson velvet, trimmed in front with two verticle bands of old guipure lace. A creamcolored felt hat surmounted an artistically arranged wisp of pale golden liaip, and was trimmed with pink and crimson arranged in a large tuft. The accomplished actress sat next the diplomatic Box. She did not look the worse for the severe indisposition which has been announced in the papers, for the fatiguing rehearsals of “Marion Delorme,” or for having played the part of Lady Simpson at M. Pierre Petit’s artistic soiree.

Lord Ronald Gower, in a pleasant letter from Pera, where he has been staying for some time, and which he compares to “Cleopatra on a dunghill,” speaks of the extraordinary intelligence, yearning for sympathy and kindness, and unbounded gratitude when they get it, of the dogs who are the only scavengers of that flirty and delightful city. They swarm in packs about the streets and lanes. They all have districts, and woe betide any dog that ventures beyond his own frontier. He is immediately set on and tom to pieces. The Turks are very kind to them, and have at various points erected little* sheds as places of refuge for them. On Friday ’charitable Turks distribute bread and meat to them. One evening a dog came up arid licked Lord Ronald’s hand. He once patted him and he never forgot.it. He followed him to his boundary, looked wistfully after him,wagged his tail in farewell, but would go no further.

In an address before the Liverpool Geological Society, by Professor Reade, on “The Denudation of the Two Americas,” he shows that 150,000,000 tons of matter, in solution, are annually poured into the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River, and this, it is estimated, would reduce the time for the denudation of one foot of land over the whole basin —which time has hitherto been calculated solelV from the matter in suspension—from one foot in 6,000 years to one foot in 4,500 years. Similar calculations applied to the La Plata, the Amazon, and the St. Lawrence show that an average of 100 tons to the square mile, per annum, are removed from the whole American continent. This, it is stated, agrees with the results previously arrived at by Professor Reade in respect to Europe, from which it is inferred that the whole of the land draining into the Atlantic from America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, contributes matter in solution which, if reduced to rock at two tons to the cubic yard, would equal one pubic mile every sir years. ,

ChicagoMan(tiercely)—“Do you mean to call me a liar, sir?” Boston Man—“ That is the construction which naturally suggests itself in connection: with the observation that I addressed to you, sir. ” Chicago Man (mollified) —“All right, sir. I accept your apology. I allow no man to call me a liar.”— New York Sun. Avoid shame, but dd not seek glory —nothing so expensive as glory.'—Sidney Smith. ■ »/. ' * -V ' ■ V; ■