Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1894 — Astor’s London Newspapcr. [ARTICLE]

Astor’s London Newspapcr.

Tom Ochiltree in Washington Post. “Mr. Astor, who has literary tastes, inquired in a casual manner whether any first-class paper was for sale. ‘I want the best there is in the market,’ said Mr. Astor, ‘and I want it quick, too.’ “ ‘The Pall Mall Gazette,’ said the attorney, ‘can be purchased, but’the price is enormous.’ ‘Never mind the price, but go and buy it for me.’ The bargain was struck the same evening. The next morning Mr. Astor sent for several unemployed dukes, earls, marquises and viscounts and offered them jobs as editors and reporters on his paper. They said their prices would be necessarily high owing to their social positions. “Expense cuts no figure with me,’ said Mr. Astor. ‘My object is purely a philanthropic one, which is to relieve the suffering and distress among the nobility of England.’ His managing editor wears a coronet as he uses the blue pencil. His police reporter is a descendant of a family which came over with Billy the Conqueror. The society reporter when off on nis vacation lives in a baronial castle in Yorkshire. No such Staff : is found on any other paper on the globe. When Mr. Astor gets up in the morning and rings for coffee and toast his managing editor is waiting outside the door to receive orders for the day. A tap of his bell summons three earls and a marquis. He tried to get a countess for the ladv cashier of the business office, and was much disappointed at failing to do so, but expects before the season is over to complete a transaction with a dowager duchess, who will lick postage stamps and add dignity to the downstairs depratment of the paper.”

Long Branch has been a summer resort for 116 years. A Philadelphian in 1778 engaged summer boarding for himself and family at the Colonel White House, Long Branch, Upon condition that he provided his own bedding. He provided not only bedding but me it as well, because the landlady could furnish only fish and vegetables. The property in question, including 100 acres, was sold in 1790 for S7OO, and $2,000 having been spent in improvements, a regular summer resort was opened. Two years later the visitors at the place saw the battle between the English frigate Boston and the French frigate Ambuscade, To engrave or write on colored eggs is a very simple tfick. A pen or pointed piece of steel or iron and any kind of thin varnish that will dry quickly are the only articles required. When the tracing on the' egg is finished let the varnish become dry. Then place the egg so treated in a dish containing vinegar, a ten minute’s bath is about all that is necessary to bring out the writing. The Chan-Santa-Cruz Indians in Yucatan have never been conquered. No white man has ever seen their city, which is defended by a swamp.