Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — Page 7

De Quincey.

Mr, Findlay’s recollections of De QuWicey have just been abroad, and prove to be interesting, if fragmentary and slight De Quinney’s devotion to opium is shown by one of Mr. Findlay’s anecdotes. “On one occasion,” lie says, “his foot had been affected by his taking large doses of opium; ‘in fact,’he said, ‘my leg is quite black, from the foot to considerably above the knee.’ He treated lightly my expressions of regret at such an alarming appearance, saying that he had had it before, and knew how far it would go, and how it could be got quit of. .The best cure, he said, would be to take six months’ walking; on which I said that his case was like that of St Denis: ‘Ce n’est que le premier pas que conte.’ How was he to begin this regimen ? He answered that by his leaving off opium, even for a few days, his leg would so far recover as to enable him to go out; but, he says, I cannot do that, for without opium I can’t go op with my work, which the publishers are urging me to complete. The work must be done; the opium can’t be left off; therefore I can not begin to Tvalk.” De Quincey’s dress was peculiar and far from attractive. His clothbs generally looked very old and as if they had been made for a person larger than himself, the reason being that he grew thinner in his later years, but still continued to wear the clothes made for him long before. “I have sometimes,” says Mr. Findlay, “seen appearances about him of a shirt and a shirt collar, but usually there were no indications of these articles of dress. When I came to visit him in his lodgings I saw him in .all stages of costume; sometimes he would come in to me from his bed-room to his parlor, as on this occasion, with shoes but no stockings, and sometimes With stockings but no shoes. ’’ Mr. Findlay saw him after his death “on the simple uncurtained pallet, whence in that last interview he had smilingly, with all those delicately polite regrets, said good-by, the tiny frame of this great dreamer lay stretched in his last long dreamless sleep. Attenuated to an extreme degree, the body looked infantile in size—a very slender stem for the shapely and massive head that crowned it. The face was little changed; its delicate bloom, indeed, was gone, but the sweet expression lingered, and the finely chiseled features were unaltered.” Mr. Findlay once found his friend in a chaos of books and MSS., and clouds of dust, searching for a missing document; and he adds: “The confusion of this sort in which he lived was marvelous. After his death Mrs. Craig told me that the mass of letters and notes, many unopened, to be gone over, was bewildering. In the heterogeneous heap, too, stray pound notes and packages of small coin in silver and copper were so numerous as when collected to form a considerable sum, Some of the notes were between the leaves of books; and parcels of coin had probably been handed to him as change, laid aside and forgotten. The task of looking over borrowed books and returning them to their owners, as far as these could be discovered, was also a heavy one.”

The Universal Language.

Volapuk is the name of the universal language that has recently been invented by a German professor. Its Vocabulary is formed from the Germanic and Latin languages, and the grammar is as simple as it can be made. The adjective, verb, and adverb are regularly fbrmed from the noun, and have invariably the same termination, so that it suffices almost to learn the substantives of the language to know all the words of the dictionary. There are no irregular words, and but ..one conjugation. The adjectives are invariable and there are but two genders, maculine and feminine. In pronouncing Volapuk each letter vowel, or consonant has an unvarying sound, and the accent is always on the last syllable. The words are written as they are pronounced and pronounced just as they are written. It is claimed that any person who knows a Roman language, as French or Italian, or a Germanic language, as German or English, may be able, after a month’s study, to translate without difficulty a letter from his mother tongue into' Volapuk. The advantages to international commerce from a universal language in facilitating correspondence between merchants of different nations can be easily understood. The city of Paris, last winter, established a school, free to all, for teaching the new language. The first congress of the partisans of Volapuk met last year at a German ' town on Lake Constance, when 300 members came from all parts of Europe; a second congress will be held at Nuremberg in 1887, and in 1889, the occasion of the Universal Exposition, a grand international congress of delegates from all the societies of Europe and the other countries of the world will be held at Paris.—(Texas Siftings.

He Hates Kids.

“I hate kids,” he said. “Why?” “I think they ought to be locked up in asylums tift they are old enough to take care of themselves. If it hadn’t been for a kid—well—it might have been ” “What?” “I loved this kid’s mother. She was a rich and beautiful widow, and I was madly in love with her. I was actual ly contemplating—in fact, I had just got to the point of putting the delicate question. We were in the drawingroom. The kid was playing in the corner. Forgetting all about that, I put my arms fervently around the widow’s waist and implanted a passionate kiss upon her lips, when the kid started up and rushed at me. ‘Don’t you kill my mamma!’ and ran screaming into the kitchen, calling for the servants.” “That didn’t have ” “What 1 Marry a widow with a child like that! But the worst came a few nights after. I called at the house. There were several ladies there, and the kid was being petted all around. Of course the widow was all right, but that confounded child deliberately

turned her' back upon me. I didn’t mind that; but the mother, to be nice, said: “ ‘You darling child, don’t you know Mr. Y fc *Oh, yes,’ said the imp, very pertly; *Oh, yes, I know you; yon are the man that bited my mamma.’ I need not—l could not —describe the effect,”— San Francisco Chronicle.

Barnum and Pig’s Feet

The late Harrison Phoebus was an epicure about everything else. The creator of a new dish was to him a greater man than he who won many battles. Among the guests at his hotel, at old Point Comfort, a few years ago, was the veteran showman, P. T. Barnum. He, too, loves the good things of this life. One afternoon the two were sitting together on the hotel veranda. Barnum was spinning one of the yarns for which he is famous. He broke off suddenly in the middle of his story with the remark: “Say, Phoebus, why don’t you ever serve pigs’ feet for breakfast?” “Because they’re not fit to eat,” laconically replied Mr. Phcebus. “They’re not, eh? I’ll cure you of that belief. Got a cook you can trust?” “Several of them,” responded the astonished Phcebus. “Send the best one up to me,” said Barnum. The cook came. “Now,” said Mr. Barnum to the astonished chief, “get some pigs’ feet—fat ones; wash them clean—very clean; then wrap each one separately in a piece of clean muslin that hasn’t got any starch in it. Then boil ’em. Boil ’em hard and boil ’em long; not less than seven hours. Do you understand—seven hours? Then take them out and put them in a cool place. When they’re cool unwrap ’em and split ’em. Understand? Split ’em right in the center. Next day noil ’em and serve ’em hot—the hotter the better, but for heaven’s sake don’t fry ’em.” The cook followed instructions, and the next‘day Mr. Phcebus took breakfast with Mr. and Mrs. Barnum and the friend who tells the story. Mr. Phcebus ate of them, and ate heartily. They just touched his taste, and “supplied a long-felt want.” When the pigs’ feet hhd disappeared, Mr. Phoebus’ comment was, “Say, Barnum, that’s food for a king. ” And that is how it came about that the visitor to the various first-class hotels finds on the breakfast bill of fare set before him, “Pigs’ feet boiled ala Barnum.” Mr. Phoebus had introduced the dish to his brother caterers in various parts pf the world,— Hartford Post.

A Couple of Stray Anecdotes.

When Dr. Warren was promoted by the Legislature of North Carolina to the rank of Brigadier General, as a special reward for his services as Surgeon General of the State, some one asked Governor Vanee if he thought Warren wouldjaccept the promotion, in view of the report which was then in circulation that all persons holding the rank of General would be shot in event of the failure of the Confederacy. “Well,” said he, “I know Warren as well as the next man, and I can tell you this about him: He would take the rank of Brigadier General, with the chance of being shot on account of it at the end of the war, and. he would take the rank of Major General with the certainty of being shot for it tomorrow? 9 The Rev. Mr. Tyler had a big dog named Watch, that he was in the habit of taking to church. One Sunday, in the midst of an impressive sermon, Mr. Tyler repeated in an earnest, eloquent manner the words: “Watch! watch! watch! I say;” when rustle, rustle, bounce came his big dog, almost into his very arms. Honest Watch had been sitting with his eyes fixed, as usual, on the minister. At the first mention of his name up went his ears, and his eyes kindled; at the second he was still more deeply moved; at the third he obeyed, and flew completelyover pew rail and pulpit door with leaps that did equal honor to his muscular power and his desire to obey.

The Troublesome Duke.

There afe several stories related by the court chaplain respecting the eccentricities of the King’s bi other, the Duke of Cambridge, who would give veut quite loudly to the thoughts current in his mind during divine service. When the clergyman said “Let us pray,” the Duke added audibly, “With all my heart.” On another occasion, as we have heard, he said, “Why the devil shouldn’t we ?” Once, as the unfortunate curate was reading the story of Zaccheus, “Behold, the half of thy goods I give to the poor,” the Duke astonished the congregation by saying aloud, “No, no; I can’t do that; that’s too much for any man—no objection to a tenth.” In answer to “Thou shalt not steal,” the Duke remarked, “No, I never did steal anything except some, apples when I was quite a little boy.” Once the Duke objected to the prayer for rain on account of the wind. “No use praying for rain in a northeast wind.” The prayer for rain sometimes causes quarrels in country parishes. We know a case of a farmer rushing to the Squire to complain of his parson’s selfishness. “Directly he gets up his own rubbishing piece of hay," said the irritated agriculturist, “he begins to pray for rain!” The court chaplain informs us that the curate of Kew got so nervous at the continual interruptions of his Royal Highness that he resigned his appointment.— Temple Bar.

The Modern Old Maid.

■Who does not rejoice in her? She is round and jolly, two dimples in her cheeks, and has a laugh as musical as a bobolink’s song. She wears nicely fitted dresses, and becoming little ornaments about her throat, and capti- ■ rating knots and bows. She goes to concerts, parties, suppers, lectures, and matinees, and she doesn’t go alone. She carries a dainty parasol, and wears killing bonnets, and has live poets and philosophers in her train. In fact, the modern old maid is as good as the modern young maid; she has sense and conversation as well as dimples and curves, affd she has a bank book and dividends. And the men like her—and why not?— New Orleans States.

Cleaning Costly Fabrics.

A careless waiter or an accident at the dinner table may cause the apparent ruin of laces, silks, or velvets worth large sums of money. If the lady tries to"clean them herself she makes matters worse, and makes it impossible for the professional cleaners to do anything with them afterward. These cleaners have peculiar methods in renovating these delicate fabrics, and many of them they will not reveal, as they are secrets of their trade.

“Ths treatment of fine laces,” said a cleaner, “is an expensive and troublesome process. A thick blanket of soft rags is sewed around a bottle, and on this the lace is pinned. It is quite impossible to rub lace, as it would tear it to pieces. The bottle is then placed in a bath of soapy warm water. After soaking for twenty minutes it is boiled for some time, and then allowed to cool, It is dipped in several baths of clear water, until all the soap seems to be removed. The lace is then removed from the bottle, and after part of the water is driven out by gentle pressure it is hung tip to dry. “After a time it is laid on a soft cloth to dry still more. When still slightly damp it is placed on a hair cushion covered with flannel, and is fastened there with lace pins. This is a work of skill and patience. A pin is passed through each loop, and a twist is given before the pin is fastened. Sometimes the loop is drawn straight, and sometimes not, the operator seeming to follow the original design of the lace. When quite dry the lace is sponged with a weak solution of gum arabic, and when dry again it is almost as good as new. “ The method of cleansing velvet is a secret. It can be greatly freshened by steaming it over boiling water, care being taken to expose the wrong side of the velvet to the steam; but this is useful only where the damage is not very great. I can tell you only that the process is a dry one, and chalk is used in it. Velvet that has been wet is hard to treat, but we have been able to do wonders with it “It is a very common thing for actresses to bring elaborate silk and satin costumes to be renewed, and we also have many fine ball dresses. We do not take them apart, but cleanse them as they are. They are first dipped in a bath of naphtha, and this removes ink, champagne, and many other stains. Then they go into a bath of pure benzine, which takes out all the grease. They are softly rubbed in these baths, and any spots remaining are treated with oxalic acid. They are rinsed out in warm water and dried over steam coils. To iron them would harden the silk and make it shiny, so it is run over steam rolls or ironed between flannels. We have ironers whose business it is to iron dresses, and whpn they have finished a dress it looks new. Mildew is removed by oxalic acid. ”

Sunday Meetings.

If we contemplate the immense importance of the Sunday afternoon meetings of the organized laboring men throughout the nation, we shall find ourselves astonished*' that so little general attention is paid to those meetings. As a matter of fact, Saturday afternoon should be given over to them, and they should be prohibited oh Sunday. These meetings call the best husbands from their families. The Current would be happy to see the pastors of the churches sitting on the benches of the labor meetings. Surely the leading lawyers should be there. The present trade debates are important in their results, and yet themselves count for nothing in a large circle of the community. If eight hours must come, let Saturday afternoons be a part of the leisure gained, and let Sunday union work be abolished. Let the pastors of the churches be requested to take seats among the workingmen. That is where they belong. That would keep the social structure from catching fire. There is too much smoke-smell the way things are going.— Chicago Current.

Henry Taylor’s Vagaries.

At a large gathering of celebrities, shortly after his entry into literary society, he monopolized the conversation for some time by a paradoxical advocacy of Mahometanism as against Christianity. He appears to have somewhat trenched on the forbearance of his company, although the display was a most brilliant one, and Charles Lamb, who was of the number, rebuked him in the following way: When the party was breaking up, Henry Taylor’s hat was nowhere to be found. The hosts coming downstairs, asked what was amiss, when Lamb replied, “The gentleman has lost his turban. ” His hostility or indifference to Christianity appears to have lasted until he found himself rejected by tlw lady of his affections for want of definite religious belief. This led him toa serious examination of the whole matter, and at the end of twelve months, he was able to make a confession of faith which was satisfactory to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the lady’s father). — Pall Mall Gazette.

What God Does with the Pennies.

“What queer notions children do get into their heads, "said a suburbanite last evening. “This morning my five-year-old girl attended Sunday school for the first time, and she came home full of the idea that she must take some pennies with her next Sunday. “ ‘No more pennies for candy, papa,’ she exclaimed; ‘they must all be saved for the Sunday school.’ M ‘And what do they do with the pennies at Sunday school?’ “ ‘Oh, they send them up to God. ’ “ ‘And what does God do with them ?’ “ ’Oh,’ she said, after a moment’s hesitation, ‘he throws them down again to see the little children scramble for thetn. That’s the way he has fun.’ ” Chicago Herald.

A Dutiful Daughter.

The pretty maiden fell overboard, and her lover leaned pver the side of the boat as she ios&' toj the surface, and said: “Give me your hand.” “Please ask papa,” she said, as she sank for the second time.— Boston Courier. Unjust resentment is always the fiercest ~

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, expressage, and >3 carriage hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand. Central Depot ——- . 618 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, 61 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the beet Horse oars, stages, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for lees money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city.

A Dangerous Game.

The Buffalo Courieri tells an interesting draw-poker story, and insists that it is true. The game was played in a Buffalo hotel by seven men. One of the players had won S2OO and waa about to jump the game when he picked up a hand of four kings and an ace. It was invincible because they were not playing straight flushes. All came in, one of them raising the ante $lO. Mr. Four Kings just chipped along, not wishing to keep anybody out. The others staid and all drew cards, the man with the kings throwing away his ace and drawing one card rather than spoil his chances of getting bets by standing pat. The man who had made the $lO raise took two cards. Then the betting began. All were driven out except the man who had drawn two cards. They whacked back and forth at one another until at length, having exhausted all his chips and gone shy for many dollars, the man with the kings felt that he had won all he wanted to, and called. Ta.,his horror his opponent laid down four aces. The beaten man howled and claimed fraud, for how could the other man have four aces when he himself had one before the draw ? The explanation was simple. There being seven players there were not cards enough to go around after the first deal, and so the discards were shuffled up and dealt for the draw. In the draw the man who took two cards and was drawing to three aces, got the ace that the man with four kings had discarded, and was thus able to beat him out of his boots.

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A QUESTION ABOUT Browns Iron Bitters ANSWERED. : The haa probably been asked thmumidß ofthnM. "Hew can Brown's Iron Bitten careererything !*’Well, jt doean’t Bat it <l<xm cure any dtoeaae for which a reputable physician would properfoe Physicians recognize Iron ae the beet restorative agent known to the profession, and inquiry of any , leading chemical firm will substantiate the assertion that there are more nrep»r*tions of iron tffkn of any other substance used in medicine. Thin shows cooclusively that iron is acknowledged to be the nwst important factor in successful medical practice. It to, bowevera remarkable fact, that prior to the dtocov- > * ly satisfactory iron combination h»d ever been found. BROWN’S IRON hMdsche, or produce ooamtlpation—a. 11 other I row mediciaea do. BROWN’S IRON BITTERS eurea Indigestion, Biliouaaeas, Weakness, Dyspepsia. Malaria, Chills aad Fevers, Tired Feellng,Geaera.l Debility,Paia fa tho Side, Back or Limbs. Headache aad Neuralgia—for all tbarn ailments Iron la proscribed daily. BROWN’S IRON minute. ■ Uke ail other thorough medicine*. it acts slowly. When taken by man the first symptom of benefit is renewed energy. The rnnsclm then firmer, the digestion improve*. the bowels *re active. In woman th. effect is usually mors rapid and marked. The eyes begin at once to brighten; the skin clear* up; healthy color oomee to the cheeks; nervousness disappears; functional derancements become regu- . lar, and if a nursing mother, abundant sustenance is supplied for the child. Remember Brown's Iron Bitters in the ONLY iron medicine that to not injurious. Z’kyHeiana and ifruggUlt recommend «. The Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed rod lines on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER. DR. RADWAY’S THE 051. Y GEWCITVE Sarsaparillian Resolvent I THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER For the Cure of all Chronic Diseases. HCROH'LA, BLOOD TAIMTR. CHRONIC RHBL'UATIRU, VARt COSIt Truss, BRONCHITIS, CORSIMITIOW, SURAL HKBILITY, KWMXY AMP BLAPPKH IOSPLAUTS CL'RED BY Radway’s Sarsaparillian Resolvent. Humors and Sores of all kinds, particularly chronic diseases of ti e akin, are cured with great certainty by a course of RADWAY’S SARSAPARILLIAN. We mean obstinate cases that have resisted all other treatment. DIABETES CURED! Lovuiama, Mo. Dr. Radway— Dear Sir: I have used ail your remedies with great success in practice, and the wav I found favor with your Resolvent it cured me of DiabetsS after three physicians had given me up. I detected • change In my urine in two hours after the first doss, and three bottles cured me. Your friend, THOS. G. PAGE. A remedy composed of ingredients of extraordinary medical properties, essential to purify, heal, repair, and invigorate the broken-down and wasted body. Sold by all Druggists. |I.OO a bottle. UK. RAHWAY A CO., K. Y.. Proprietors of Ratiway's Ready Belief and Dr. Kadway’s Pills. _ m fa Yonr NewMsstortorTHE CHICAGO £> ■< LEDGER, the Bist Story Pams Uh JfcKWAMr in the country. Read ft. KIDDER'S P«TIU£Bj?HS!?K mmjmMOlMaMHlMCluu'Jeatown, Maas. JONES EICHT JaL,. WV 5 Ton Wages Seales. Iron Levers, BtesT Bssrinji, Brass MBBBrnBbL Tare Beam end Beam Box tor S6O. jMNR kvery site Scale. Cor free prlee 11M ' mention tble paper aad addreoa V JBNES Of MNBHAMTM, _ * BINGHAMTON. nTY,

FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Beat in Ute World. Get the cennlne. Every package hats our Trade-mark and t* marked Frazer’s. HOLD EVERYWHERE. IF, PAGES QLIOUID GLUE dbyOn MENDS EVERYTHING s'.<Mjßwood,Leather.Paper.lvory,Glas«, Hill Furniture, Bric-a-Brac, Ac. IlgdiypSglw Rtrony m Iron, Solid a* a Bock. wSSpSk vSB The total quantity sold during ths past five years amounted to over SgaMaMMßgf Pronounced Strongest GluO known SSa 552 aSSSg DROPSY V TREATED FREE. I DR. 11. ». GREEK dk SONS, Specialists for Thirteen Tears Past, Have treated Dropay and its complications with the most wonderful success; use vegetable remedies, entirely harmless. Remove all symptoms of dropsy in eight to twenty days. Cure patients pronounced hopeless by ths best ot physician*. From the first dose the symptoms rapidly disappear. and in ten days at least two-thirds ot all symptoms are removed. Some may cry humbug without knowing anything about it. Remember, it does not cost you anything to realize the merits of our treatment for yourself. In ten days the difficulty of breathing is relieved, th* Bnlse regular, the urinary organs made to discharge lelr fun duty, sleep Is restored, the swelling all or nearly gone, the strength increased, and appetite made good. We are constantly curing case* of long stand-ing-eases that have been tapped a number of time*, .nd the patient declared unable to lives week. Give full bistory of case. Name sex, now long afflicted, how badly swollen and where, are bowels costive, have legs bursted and dnpped water. Send for free pamphlet, containing testimonial*, questions, etc. S en days’ treatment tarnished free by mail. Epilepsy (Fits) positively cured. If you order trial,send I<> cents In stamps to pay postage. H. H. GREEN Sc SONS. M. Ds., tlti .lone Awrnn., MJ-,'-**. C.,

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