Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — A SHANTY BOAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A SHANTY BOAT.

Unlucky Adventures of An Elegant, ! Summer Residence. Middletown, comb, Special ■TSrjTj'Y'; Herald Mar. 10. Readers of the Herald will recall the woful fate as Mr. Lecount’s elegant; 75-ton summer dwelling, which, in 1 February, with twenty yoke of eteCrs to pull it along, set out from its site in the woods on the southern : bank of Gardner’s Lake, fifteen miles east of this city in the country wilds, to skate across the eighteen inches of ice. The house wont along nicely atiirst, and the rough team-

sters gee-hawed and yelled and cracked their long gads, while several Hundred of the country folks applauded the novel performance. But when the house was about the middle of the lake, it broke through the ice aud went down to the botTdm. -7“ - It has been floundering about in the big pond ever since, and now that the spring thaw has set in it is wabbling and wallowing worse than ever amid the ice floes. Crowds gather every to* watch it, for the i fact is that the dwelling will not down permanently. A day or two ago, the rotten iee falling; away from its walls, it came up to “blow,” as the country people put it, and an enthusiastic photographer took a shot, at it. The househas crone erdising about the Fake since,- at the will of the winds.

An American gentleman who has recently returned from abroad says that he attended service one Sunday in "Westminster Abbey. Archdeacon Farrar, in the course of an eloquent address, quoted in support; of his position from the speeches of Disraeli and Gladstone, and then said he would add another authority, and read an extract from a speech of “a great orator of international fame, thpugh not a countryman, Chauncey M. Depew, of the United States.” The traveler said this was probably the first time an American had ever received public mention of this kind in Westminster Abbey.

Mr. Riverside Parke—l was talking with Captain Mcßoodler. o the police last night. He has had afvery exciting and eventful life. Mr. Pete Amsterdam—Yes, and when he gets to Sing Sing he will have a checkered career.

Queen Victoria will use electricity for cooking purposes. The necessary apparatus has been installed at Osborne, in the Isle of Wight. It is, however, only used for the more-del-icate dishes.

“Morning Star,” a Yankee boy, who is touring around the world at the expense of everybody but himself. with the ultimate intention of chronicling his adventures in book form, has arrived at Allahabad, India.

AFLOAT IN THE LAKE.