Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1870 — Eccentricities of Authors. [ARTICLE]

Eccentricities of Authors.

Bulwer rit “Night and Mornln." What he did with the rest of the day is not staited. Collins rit “After Dark.” Perhaps ho coiildn’t rite so well by day. Le Fanu, he rit “All in the Dark.” I don’t see how he did it without a life. How cood he dot the i’s or kross the t’st Sum orther wrote “ Bound in the Wheel,” an unkumfortabie posish tu rite in, bound to a wheel-! Thunder! Carpenter rit “ Six Months at the White House.” I spose that was as long as he stade there, his time bein’ out." Gilmore rote “Four Years in the Saddle,” so ’tia sed. He must hev hed a •‘quiet horse.” Mis Mulock wrote "Nothing New." This hood be sed of menny others with grate propriety. Harrington rit “Inside.” I take it for granted that most people do. It wouldn’t be kumfortable ritein on the sidewalk in rainy weather. Sum orther, hoo didn’t give ns his name, rote “Altogether Wrong.” A good menney hez copied from his stile, but hev had the efruntry to give us thair names, beta lost to shame. Mrs. Mackenzie Daniels rote “After Long Years.” Sensible woman. If sum ov the rest ov ’em would wait till they git to the ago ov dlskretion, it would be better for awl konserned. —Josh Billings.

—The New Bedford Standard records a little incident of Decoration-day, which occurred near that city. The exercises were iu the open air—speakers, musicians and returned Soldiers in the centre, and the public outside of a circle formed by the marshals of the day. The military stood shoulder to shoulder, somewhat hiding the view from a genteel party in their immediate rear. A young-man of the kid glove persuasion, stepping from their midst, approached, remonyatxatively, the military, and addressed them thus: " My dear von prevent our seeing ; you aro standing up there, right in front Of us." Answer by high private: “ Yes, sir; and wo stood in front and covered you all through the war." Remonstrant subsided. ’ —Thero are fifteen handled men employed la the navy yard at Philadelphia.